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The Expansion of Renewable Energy Technologies and Their Impact on Household Energy Portfolios and Sustainable Development: A Study Of Nepal
(2017)
Encouraging households to switch from traditional fuels to cleaner, modern fuels (e.g.; electricity, liquid petroleum gas (LPG), biogas) is a widespread policy focus due to its expected benefits for health and the environment. ...
Transportation in Transition: Data-Driven Sustainability Assessment of Automated, Electric, and Shared Mobility
(2021)
Emerging technologies in transportation, including vehicle automation, electrification, and shared mobility, are poised to transform the mobility paradigm, transportation markets, and travelers’ behavior in the coming ...
Three Essays in Microeconometrics
(2019)
Traditional econometric methods can perform poorly in applications. The poor performance is usually due to challenges faced by researchers conducting empirical data analysis, yet overlooked by large sample reasonings that ...
The impact of community midwives on maternal healthcare utilization
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Advancing Partners & Communities, 2023-03)
Globally 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. One of the major reasons for high maternal mortality ratios in many developing countries is the low proportion of births attended ...
The local health impacts of natural resource booms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.World Bank, 2023-02)
This paper uses novel micro-data on natural resources and administrative health data in Brazil to study how economic booms in minerals affect health at birth. By implementing a reduced-form estimation of shift-share research ...