Can Private Vehicle-augmenting Technical Progress Reduce Household and Total Fuel Use?

Household Fuel Use and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality

Optimal crop management can reduce energy use and greenhouse gases emissions in rainfed canola production

Energy use and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in rainfed canola production in north eastern Iran were analyzed to find measures to reduce energy use and GHG emissions. Four production scenarios, i.e. a high-input, a low-input, a better crop management and a usual scenario, evaluated. All activities and production processes were monitored and recorded over three consecutive years. The usua...

Can vitamin D reduce total mortality?

T HE ANTIRACHITIC PROPERTIES OF VITAMIN D, the " sunshine vitamin, " are generally well recognized, and the role of vitamin D in calcium and phosphorus homeostasis is well established. 1 In the last several decades, many studies have documented nontraditional roles of vitamin D, as well as adverse consequences of vitamin D deficiency for a range of conditions, including bone health, cancer, car...

Factor Substitution and Factor Augmenting Technical Progress in the US: A Normalized Supply-Side System Approach

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Labor- and Capital-augmenting Technical Change

I analyze an economy in which firms can undertake both laborand capital-augmenting technological improvements. In the long run, the economy resembles the standard growth model with purely labor-augmenting technical change, and the share of labor in GDP is constant. Along the transition path, however, there is capital-augmenting technical change and factor shares change. Tax policy and changes i...