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World Bank
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About: World Bank is a other organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poverty. The organization has 7813 authors who have published 21594 publications receiving 1198361 citations. The organization is also known as: World Bank, WB & The World Bank.
Topics: Population, Poverty, Developing country, Free trade, Productivity
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University of Queensland1, University of the West Indies2, University of Florence3, Bournemouth University4, University of Southampton5, University of Buenos Aires6, University of Grenoble7, United Nations University8, University of Washington9, University of the Witwatersrand10, Aix-Marseille University11, National Institute for Environmental Studies12, World Bank13, University of Cambridge14, University of Bristol15, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research16, ETH Zurich17, College of The Bahamas18, University of East Anglia19
TL;DR: The climate change–impact literature is reviewed, expanding on the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and it is argued that impacts accelerating as a function of distance from the optimal temperature for an organism or an ecosystem process is a consequence of impacts accelerating.
Abstract: Increased concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases have led to a global mean surface temperature 1.0°C higher than during the pre-industrial period. We expand on the recent IPCC Special Report on global warming of 1.5°C and review the additional risks associated with higher levels of warming, each having major implications for multiple geographies, climates, and ecosystems. Limiting warming to 1.5°C rather than 2.0°C would be required to maintain substantial proportions of ecosystems and would have clear benefits for human health and economies. These conclusions are relevant for people everywhere, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where the escalation of climate-related risks may prevent the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss microsimulation techniques and their theoretical background as a tool for the analysis of public policies, with emphasis on tax incidence, redistribution, and poverty analysis.
Abstract: During the last 20 years, microsimulation models have been increasingly applied in qualitative and quantitative analysis of public policies. This paper discusses microsimulation techniques and their theoretical background as a tool for the analysis of public policies. It next analyses basic principles for using microsimulation models and interpreting their results, with emphasis on tax incidence, redistribution and poverty analysis. It then discusses social welfare analysis permitted by microsimulation techniques and points to the limits of present approaches and some directions for future developments.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified the impact of different external shocks using a panel vector autoregression (VAR) approach and compared their relative contributions to output volatility in low-income countries vis-a-vis internal factors.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors test how well consumption is insured against income risk in a panel of sampled households in rural China, and estimate the risk insurance models by generalized method of moments, treating income and household size as endogenous.
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TL;DR: It is found that household wealth and parental education are associated with higher scores, and that these associations are larger among older children than child health and measures of parenting quality.
Abstract: We examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status (SES), child health, and parenting quality in a developing country. We use a sample of more than 3,000 predominantly poor preschool-aged children from Ecuador, and analyze determinants of their scores on a widely used test of language ability. We find that household wealth and parental education are associated with higher scores, and that these associations are larger among older children. Child health and measures of parenting quality are associated with test performance, and account for a fraction, although not the majority, of the association between SES and cognitive development.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Joseph E. Stiglitz | 164 | 1142 | 152469 |
Barry M. Popkin | 157 | 751 | 90453 |
Dan J. Stein | 142 | 1727 | 132718 |
Asli Demirguc-Kunt | 137 | 429 | 78166 |
Elinor Ostrom | 126 | 430 | 104959 |
David Scott | 124 | 1561 | 82554 |
Ross Levine | 122 | 398 | 108067 |
Barry Eichengreen | 116 | 949 | 51073 |
Martin Ravallion | 115 | 570 | 55380 |
Kenneth H. Mayer | 115 | 1351 | 64698 |
Angus Deaton | 110 | 363 | 66325 |
Timothy Besley | 103 | 368 | 45988 |
Lawrence H. Summers | 102 | 285 | 58555 |
Shang-Jin Wei | 101 | 415 | 39112 |
Thorsten Beck | 99 | 373 | 62708 |