Search Results - "Aragon, M"

Particulate matter and labor supply: The role of caregiving and non-linearities by Aragón, Fernando M., Miranda, Juan Jose, Oliva, Paulina

“…This paper examines the effect of air pollution on labor supply in Lima, Peru. We focus on fine particulate matter (PM2.5), an important pollutant for health…”
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Polluting Industries and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Mining in Ghana by Aragón, Fernando M., Rud, Juan Pablo

“…We examine how modern, polluting industries can affect agricultural productivity. The focus is on large-scale gold mining in Ghana, which is capital-intensive,…”
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Climate Change and Agriculture: Subsistence Farmers’ Response to Extreme Heat by Aragón, Fernando M., Oteiza, Francisco, Rud, Juan Pablo

“…This paper examines how subsistence farmers respond to extreme heat. Using microdata from Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures reduce…”
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Natural Resources and Local Communities: Evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine by Aragón, Fernando M., Rud, Juan Pablo

“…This paper examines the local economic impact of Yanacocha, a large gold mine in Northern Peru. Using annual household data from 1997 to 2006, we find evidence…”
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Are small farms really more productive than large farms? by Aragón, Fernando M., Restuccia, Diego, Rud, Juan Pablo

“…This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This…”
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Reduction of nitrate and nitrite in Iberian dry cured loins and its effects during drying process by Higuero, N., Moreno, I., Lavado, G., Vidal-Aragón, M.C., Cava, R.

“…Four batches of Iberian dry-cured loins were manufactured with reduced ingoing amounts of both nitrate and nitrite: 150 mg/kg, 75 mg/kg, 37.5 mg/kg and…”
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Evaluation of remediation techniques in soils affected by residual contamination with heavy metals and arsenic by García-Carmona, M., Romero-Freire, A., Sierra Aragón, M., Martínez Garzón, F.J., Martín Peinado, F.J.

“…Residual soil pollution from the Aznalcóllar mine spill is still a problem in some parts of the affected area, today converted in the Guadiamar Green Corridor…”
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Residual pollution and vegetation distribution in amended soils 20 years after a pyrite mine tailings spill (Aznalcóllar, Spain) by García-Carmona, M., García-Robles, H., Turpín Torrano, C., Fernández Ondoño, E., Lorite Moreno, J., Sierra Aragón, M., Martín Peinado, F.J.

“…The present work assesses the residual pollution in the Guadiamar Green Corridor (SW, Spain) after a long-term aging process (18 years) since the accident of…”
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The hierarchical structure and dynamics of voids by Aragon-Calvo, M. A., Szalay, A. S.

“…Contrary to the common view voids have very complex internal structure and dynamics. Here, we show how the hierarchy of structures in the density field inside…”
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The cytoskeletal motor proteins Dynein and MyoV direct apical transport of Crumbs by Aguilar-Aragon, M., Fletcher, G., Thompson, B.J.

“…Crumbs (Crb in Drosophila; CRB1-3 in mammals) is a transmembrane determinant of epithelial cell polarity and a regulator of Hippo signalling. Crb is normally…”
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Determination of N-nitrosamines and nicotine in air particulate matter samples by pressurised liquid extraction and gas chromatography-ion trap tandem mass spectrometry by Aragón, M., Marcé, R.M., Borrull, F.

“…N-nitrosamines are potentially hazardous pollutants, classified as probable carcinogenic and mutagenic by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In…”
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Do better property rights improve local income?: Evidence from First Nations' treaties by Aragón, Fernando M.

“…This paper examines the effect of an improvement in property rights on a local economy using the case of First Nations' modern treaties. These treaties are an…”
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Credit lines in microcredit: Short-term evidence from a randomized controlled trial in India by Aragón, Fernando M., Karaivanov, Alexander, Krishnaswamy, Karuna

“…We study the short-term effect of flexible microcredit loans on small businesses. We use data from a randomized controlled trial that offered a credit line…”
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The long-term impact of a resource-based fiscal windfall: Evidence from the Peruvian canon by Aragón, Fernando M., Winkler, Hernan

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Resource shocks, employment, and gender: Evidence from the collapse of the UK coal industry by Aragón, Fernando M., Rud, Juan Pablo, Toews, Gerhard

“…•The closure of coal mines in the UK since 1984 freed mine workers and increased supply of men in manufacturing jobs.•Due to imperfect substitutability this…”
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Long-term contamination in a recovered area affected by a mining spill by Martin Peinado, FJ, Romero-Freire, A, Garcia Fernandez, I, Sierra Aragon, M, Ortiz-Bernad, I, Simon Torres, M

“…Soil pollution from the spill of Aznalcóllar mine (S Spain) was monitored by analysing polluted soils in 1998, 1999, and 2004. Following the methodology used…”
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Property rights on First Nations reserve land by Aragón, Fernando M., Kessler, Anke S.

“…This paper examines the economic effects of existing private property rights on First Nations reserves. We focus on three regimes of land tenure: lawful…”
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A mother-child data linkage approach using data from the information system for the development of research in primary care (SIDIAP) in Catalonia by Segundo, E., Far, M., Rodríguez-Casado, C.I., Elorza, J.M., Carrere-Molina, J., Mallol-Parera, R., Aragón, M.

“…[Display omitted] Large-scale clinical databases containing routinely collected electronic health records (EHRs) data are a valuable source of information for…”
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Fully decoupling geometry from discretization in the Bloch–Floquet finite element analysis of phononic crystals by van den Boom, S.J., van Keulen, F., Aragón, A.M.

“…An immersed enriched finite element method is proposed for the analysis of phononic crystals (PnCs) with finite element (FE) meshes that are completely…”
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An interface-enriched generalized FEM for problems with discontinuous gradient fields by Soghrati, Soheil, Aragón, Alejandro M., Armando Duarte, C., Geubelle, Philippe H.

“…SUMMARY A new generalized FEM is introduced for solving problems with discontinuous gradient fields. The method relies on enrichment functions associated with…”
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