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Impact of Income Inequality on Health: Does Environment Quality Matter? [PDF]
This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables and income inequalities. Theoretically, all the mechanisms developed in the literature underline a negative impact of income inequality on health status.
Alassane Drabo
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Segregation and environmental inequalities in French cities
BelgeoThe spatial dimension of environmental inequalities in cities is closely linked to the unequal spatial distribution of social groups across neighbourhoods. Schaeffer and Tivadar (2019) adapted residential segregation metrics to assess urban environmental
Mihai Tivadar, Yves Schaeffer
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using nationwide data on the US Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Management Plan (RMP) program, we examine the proportions of underserved populations living near facilities that use extremely hazardous chemicals, both before and after accidents involving fires, explosions, and/or toxic vapors occur.
Karlee Cook +3 more
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Economic Growth, Inequality, Democratization, and the Environment [PDF]
We augment the Stokey (1998) model by allowing agents to differ with respect to environmental quality and income in order to analyze the impact of income and environmental inequality, and of democratization on aggregate pollution. We find that the impact
Eriksson, Clas, Persson, Joakim
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationDespite concern over air pollution, fine-scale spatial and demographic disparities in exposure remain largely unquantified in Australian cities due to sparse monitoring and coarse models.
Jun Gao +12 more
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Globalisation, Inequality and Health [PDF]
As we suggested in a previous work (Borghesi and Vercelli, Sustainable globalisation, Ecological Economics, vol.44, n.1, 2003), the process of globalisation affects the sustainability of development mainly through three channels: economic growth ...
Alessandro Vercelli, Simone Borghesi
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COVID-19 pandemic and socio-environmental inequality: A narrative review. [PDF]
Health Sci Rep, 2023 Kalankesh LR +3 more
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
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Environmental Research LettersMost studies examining demographic disparities in the distribution of environmental burdens have examined only one burden at a time. Few have examined how multiple burdens are concentrated and distributed among the American population.
Paul Mohai, Charles Lee
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