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Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage : Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna - 2019
effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …
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Philosphers and Economists Can Agree on the Intergenerational Discount Rate and Climate Policy Paths
Nesje, Frikk; Drupp, Moritz A.; Freeman, Mark C.; Groom, Ben - 2022
The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure construction, are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR) employed. Governmental guidance on social discounting has predominantly been based on input from expert...
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Cross-Dynastic Intergenerational Altruism
Nesje, Frikk - 2022
I study whether saving behavior reveals socially relevant intertemporal preferences. To this end, I decompose the present generation’s preference for the next into its dynastic and cross-dynastic components in a model of saving. If people are concerned about the next generation as such, then...
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