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Climate, weather and child health in Burkina Faso
Abstract It is now clear that anthropogenic climate change is having a negative impact on human health. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive assessment of the impact of climatic stressors on child health in Burkina Faso. We undertake a rigorous empirical analysis of the impact of climate and weather shocks on mortality, stunting (height ...
Shouro Dasgupta +1 more
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The housing wealth effect: The role of renovations and home improvements
Abstract This paper tests whether disregarding home improvements biases the housing wealth effect, that is, the marginal propensity to consume out of housing wealth. We decompose housing wealth changes in their unanticipated and exogenous component by filtering out previously elicited expectations of house prices and by dealing with endogenous home ...
Francesco G. Caloia, Mauro Mastrogiacomo
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Social Insurance and Truncated Benefits: Measuring the Impacts of Workers′ Compensation
This study addresses the indirect impacts of state‐mandated workers′ compensation benefits on workers′ wages. The benefit structure of workers′ compensation causes a fundamental estimation problem. I develop a new strategy to limit the biases inherent in earlier models.
Samuel K. Allen, Almas Heshmati
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Pseudo-Panel Decomposition of the Blinder–Oaxaca Gender Wage Gap
This article introduces a novel approach to decomposing the Blinder–Oaxaca gender wage gap using pseudo-panel data. In many developing countries, panel data are not available; however, understanding the evolution of the gender wage gap over time requires
Jhon James Mora, Diana Yaneth Herrera
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En este artículo se estiman las elasticidades intertemporal y no compensada de la oferta laboral femenina y masculina para Uruguay. Se basa en la metodología propuesta por Pencavel (2002) que permite considerar el comportamiento a lo largo del ciclo de ...
Alma Espino +3 more
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Objectif : Analyser la dynamique du mode d’occupation du logement des ménages au Togo. Conception/méthodologie/approche : Les estimations sont effectuées à partir d’un pseudo-panel construit sur la base des données QUIBB 2006, 2011 et 2015. Résultats
Tchablemane Yenlide +1 more
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This study investigates the private and social employment returns to higher education in Ethiopia (1999–2021) using pooled labor force surveys. We employ both individual-level multinomial probit and cohort-level pseudo-panel models to disentangle private
Habtamu Kefelegn +2 more
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Aging, generational shifts, and energy consumption in urban China. [PDF]
Han X, Wei C, Cao GY.
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Effect of price on the decision to experiment with cigarette smoking among Gambian children: a survival analysis using the Gambia 2017 Global Youth Tobacco Survey data. [PDF]
Dare C +5 more
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The impact of economic sanctions on health and health systems in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. [PDF]
Pinna Pintor M, Suhrcke M, Hamelmann C.
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