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Replication Codes and Data for Per Capita Income, Consumption Patterns, and CO2 Emissions
No full textData and computer codes allowing the replication of results in "Per Capita Income, Consumption Patterns, and CO2 Emissions'', to be published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
The estimation of model parameters, as well as model calibration and simulation, are all implemented using the GAMS modeling language. Compilation of results and graph-making are done in STATA
Facultative catadromy in American eels: testing the conditional strategy hypothesis
No full textAnalyses of otolith strontium:calcium (Sr:Ca) ratios in 162 American eels Anguilla rostrata of the St. Jean River watershed in eastern Canada demonstrated the co-existence of 6 migratory patterns, including freshwater and brackish water residence, and the predominance of an amphidromous migratory behavior. We tested the hypothesis that the choice of a particular life-history tactic may be controlled by a conditional strategy with status-dependent selection. This prediction was not supported because migratory patterns did not vary as a function of individual size, age and/or sex of eels prior to migration. However, we demonstrated that the utilisation of the estuarine brackish environment, more productive than the freshwater river and lake, resulted in a higher growth rate. Freshwater yellow eels, the typical catadromous tactic, were rare and experienced lower growth rates. Moreover, we suggest that freshwater overwintering periods are not recorded in otoliths owing to the cold winter climate that occurs at northern latitudes. Thus, Sr:Ca ratio patterns that show brackish residence may in some cases hide a seasonal migration between fresh and brackish habitats
Comics and dementia care: I know how this ends and graphic medicine
No full textPresented at the DC Research Café (May 14, 2020). Peter Wilkins presents the Douglas College Dementia Comics project which explores the potential of comics to enhance the impact of dementia care research. I Know How This Ends is the second volume in a series that started with Parables of Care: Creative Responses to Dementia Care (2017). This comic book presents, in synthesized form, stories crafted from narrative data collected via interviews with professional caregivers, educators, and staff at Douglas College in Vancouver, Canada, who have cared for relatives and people with dementia in hospital. The intention of the book is to show the importance of feeling in care-giving, the professional aspects of which are sometimes at odds with the family systems aspect of dementia. Douglas College Comics Project members also Marie-Pier Caron, Nursing and Ruhina Rana, Nursing
Leon Caron and the music profession in Australia
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2003 Bonnie Jane Smart.Leon Francis Victor Caron (1850-1905) was one of the major figures in Australian nineteenth-century opera and orchestral circles. He was a well-known and well-liked public figure, regarded with respect and affection by musicians and audiences alike. Little has been written concerning Caron’s career. Given the amount he contributed to the Australian stage, an assessment of his importance within the music profession is warranted. Most areas of Caron’s life are, as yet, totally unexplored; it falls outside the ambit of this thesis to present every detail pertaining to his varied and extensive musical career. Nevertheless, new information about a selection of Caron’s ventures is drawn upon here for the first time. Much of this material is used to examine the impact of Caron’s conducting on the orchestral profession in Melbourne and Sydney. Many of Caron’s performances (orchestral or otherwise) often featured the popular music of the day. The popular aspect of Caron as a composer is also considered, with particular reference to the incredibly successful pantomime Djin Djin. An examination of Caron’s performances gives great insight not only into the part he played in the wider profession; but it also sheds light on orchestral standards, performance practices and public tastes of the time. His contribution to the music profession in nineteenth-century Australia is extremely significant
Quelle guerre raconter ? Le dilemme du légionnaire Paul Caron
No full textCet article propose de revisiter le rapport du Canada français à la Grande Guerre à travers l’étude d’un témoignage singulier : celui du journaliste Paul Caron, enrôlé dans la légion étrangère en 1914. Anti-impérialiste affiché, le légionnaire a produit une série de lettres du front que l’on retrouve sous forme de chroniques dans Le Devoir et dans Le Peuple de Montmagny entre 1914 et 1917. En se mettant lui-même dans la peau d’un poilu canadien-français, l’auteur propose un récit cathartique qui reflète davantage l’ambivalence de ses semblables face au conflit en cours que le refus d’y participer. À cet égard, ses écrits nous renseignent peut-être moins sur la guerre elle-même que sur le défi d’en rendre compte — que laisser transpirer de l’horreur des tranchées? — tout en respectant l’horizon d’attente de ses lecteurs, notamment des nationalistes — quelle guerre leur raconter? Caron produit ainsi un artefact qui, au-delà des faits rapportés, révèle le poids et la complexité du cadre de référence culturel à travers lequel lui et ses contemporains, tant anglo que franco-canadiens, tentent de donner un sens à la guerre.This article re-examines French Canada’s relationship with the Great War through a particular account: that of the journalist Paul Caron who enrolled in the Foreign Legion in 1914. A well-known anti-imperialist, the legionnaire wrote a series of letters from the front that were published in columns of the newspapers Le Devoir and Le Peuple de Montmagny between 1914 and 1917. By assuming the character of a French-Canadian “poilu”, the author offers a cathartic account which underlines the ambivalence of his fellow French-Canadians towards the ongoing conflict, rather than their refusal to participate in it. In this respect, his writings tell us less about the war than they do about the challenge to report it — what part of the horrors of the trenches to disclose? — all the while trying to respect his readers’ expectations, particularly those of the nationalists — what war to tell? More than a mere factual report, the artefact produced by Caron reveals the burden and complexities of the cultural framework by which he and his contemporaries, whether they be English or French-Canadians, try to make sense of the war
Per Capita Income and the Demand for Skills
No full textAlmost all of the literature about the growth of income inequality and the relationship between skilled and unskilled wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international trade). Here, we add a role for income-dependent demand interacted with factor intensities in production. We explore how income growth and trade liberalization inuence the demand for skilled labor when preferences are non-homothetic and income-elastic goods are more intensive in skilled labor, an empirical regularity documented in Caron, Fally and Markusen (2014). In one experiment, counterfactual simulations show that sectorneutral productivity growth, which generates shifts in consumption towards skill-intensive goods, leads to significant increases in the skill premium: in developing countries, a one percent increase in productivity leads to a 0.1 to 0.25 percent increase in the skill premium. In several countries, including China and India, simulations suggest that the historical growth experienced in the last 25 years may have led to an increase in the skill premium of more than 10%. In a second experiment, we show that trade cost reductions generate quantitatively very different outcomes once we account for non-homothetic preferences. These imply substantially less predicted net factor content of trade and allow for a shift in consumption patterns caused by trade-induced income growth. Overall, the negative effect of trade cost reductions on the skill premium predicted for developing countries under homothetic preferences (Stolper-Samuelson) is strongly mitigated, and sometimes reversed
Re: Caron et al. (2021) sociocultural context and autistics quality of life: A comparison between Quebec and France
No full text\ua9 The Author(s) 2021. The purpose of this letter to the editors is to highlight to the readership of Autism the recommended use of the Autism Quality of Life measure for research with autistic adults. The Autism Quality of Life was developed for use alongside the WHOQoL-BREF and WHO Disabilities module. The letter raises some concerns about the use of the Autism Quality of Life as a stand-alone measure in a recent study by Caron et al. published in Autism
Per Capita Income and the Demand for Skills
No full textAlmost all of the literature about the growth of income inequality and the relationship between skilled and unskilled wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international trade). We add a role for income-dependent demand interacted with factor intensities in production. We explore how income growth and trade liberalization influence the demand for skilled labor when preferences are non-homothetic and when income-elastic goods are more intensive in skilled labor, an empirical regularity documented in Caron, Fally and Markusen (2014). To do so, we simulate the growth in both income and ex- ports observed between 1995 and 2010 by adjusting sector-neutral productivity and trade costs. Relative to what we would obtain with homothetic preferences, we show that these changes lead to significant increases in the skill premium, especially in developing countries. Our results are mostly driven by productivity growth shifting consumption towards skill-intensive goods, but non- homothetic preferences also matter when evaluating the effect of trade. Overall, the negative effect of trade cost reductions on the skill premium predicted for developing countries under homothetic preferences (Stolper-Samuelson) is strongly mitigated, and sometimes reversed. Keywords: Non-homothetic preferences, skill premium, per capita income, structural change, international trade JEL Classification: F10, O10, F16, J3
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