This paper examines and quantifies the complex linkages between industrial activity, environmental regulations and air pollution in China. We utilize a little used dataset of Chinese industry specific emissions for a variety of pollutants between 1996 and 2003. Our analysis allows us to investigate the role played by different determinants of emissions intensity. We find pollution intensity to ...

In the current age of commercial and financial openness, remote and poor local economies are becoming increasingly exposed to inflows of external capital. The new investors - enjoying lower credit constraints than local dwellers - might play a propulsive role in local development. At the same time, inflows of external capital can have negative impacts on local natural resource-dependent activit...

BACKGROUND Individual cognitive social capital has repeatedly been shown to be linked to health disparities in many dimensions. The aim of the study was to investigate the association between social capital and pain-related measures. METHODS 15,474 subjects older than 15 years were personally interviewed on subjective health, quality of life, health behaviour, and utilisation of healthcare in...

social capital is a multi-faceted phenomenon in social sciences that massively affects many social fields. it can be a helpful factor in promoting health. among the groups with high burnout, nurses have always shown higher levels of burnout. studies have revealed that social capital can be an important factor affecting burnout. this study aimed to determine the extent of the effect of social ca...

Output per worker is correlated with productivity (Solow residual) is 0.89: richer countries tend to be more productive and vice versa (Figure I). Productivity is also correlated with human capital: 0.52. Much of the differences between output in the US and in LDCs is due to differences in productivity rather than due to factor endowments (Table I). Capital intensity, human capital and producti...

he transition from high- to lower-carbon production systems increasingly creates regulatory and market risks for high-emitting firms. We test what extent equity investors demand a premium compensate such thus might raise firms' cost of capital (CoE). Using data 1,897 firms spanning 50 countries over the years 2008–2016, we find distinct robust positive impact carbon intensity (carbon emissions ...

After the Civil War wages fell in the South relative to the non-South, but interest rates and othermeasures of the costs of capital increased.Using archival data formanufacturing establishments, we show that capital–output and capital–labor ratios in southernmanufacturing declined relative to non-southern manufacturing after the War, precisely in the direction implied by the regional shifts in ...