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The Impact of Democratization and Globalization on Environmental Sustainability in Brazil

open access: yesGeological Journal, EarlyView.
Fossil fuel, economic globalisation, and economic growth drive environmental degradation while democratisation positively influences environmental quality. ABSTRACT Although Brazil still possesses significant ecological reserves, the surplus in its biocapacity has been rapidly declining in recent years.
Mustafa Naimoğlu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand)

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People are sometimes forced to move, and it is plausible that such relocation involves significant psychological costs. The challenge in identifying the mental health consequences of moving is that most moves are (at least partly) voluntary so that the sample of movers is self‐selected. We focus on a natural experiment, the government‐mandated
Thoa Hoang, Ilan Noy, Thinh Le Van
wiley   +1 more source

A Simple Measure of Catastrophic Health Expenditures

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a simple Watts‐type measure of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) which is an adaptation of the classic Watts poverty measure. The appeal of the proposed measure stems from the fact that it is both additively decomposable (i.e., it provides information on the contributions of the various population subgroups of ...
Tomson Ogwang, Germano Mwabu
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Incentives on Valuing Health Risks

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent research has found that health risk values elicited using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) may be inadequately sensitive to the magnitude of the risk reduction, a phenomenon referred to as insensitivity to scope. This paper investigates the use of DCEs to estimate the value of a statistical life (VSL) under different experimental ...
Maria José Gil‐Moltó   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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