From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself is important or whether it simply reflects other hard-to-measure character...

Protected areas are used to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services. However, protected areas can create tradeoffs spatially and temporally among ecosystem services, which can affect the welfare of dependent local communities. This study examines the effect of a protected area on the tradeoff between two extractive ecosystem services from mangrove forests: cutting mangroves (fuelwood) and h...

The quality is typically modeled as the univariate or multivariate distribution of quality characteristic/s. In recent applications of statistical process control, quality profiles in which the relationship between a response and explanatory variable/s is captured and monitored are increasingly used to model the quality. Several techniques have been developed to enhance the speed of detecting c...

This paper investigates whether the effects of weather variability in temperature and precipitation on agricultural output are short- or long-run. The contribution this is twofold. First, attempts to establish affects short long run. Second, it examined homogenous across East African countries. results reveal that had a long-run impact output, while short-run effect. findings also effect was he...