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Assessment of ecosystem status in Mozambique and implications for environmental planning

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We assess Mozambique's terrestrial ecosystems using the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems framework, showing that more than half of Mozambique's ecosystems are threatened, with impacts primarily concentrated in temperate subhumid grasslands and pyric tussock savannas.
Kendall R. Jones   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Unrealistic to Functional Optimism in Illness Perception: A Psychometric Comparison Across 10 Countries. [PDF]

open access: yesScand J Psychol
de Castro EK   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Consumer confidence and household investment

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Can consumer confidence account for the leading indicator property of household investment (HI) over the US business cycle? We find that it does. Consumer confidence leads HI and housing starts by two and one‐quarter, respectively. Household investment increases persistently after a positive confidence shock, and so do total hours worked ...
Hashmat Khan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
wiley   +1 more source

The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth.
David Green   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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