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Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics : opportunities and challenges

Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices

Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022

We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...

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Perceptions, expectations, and entrepreneurship : the role of extreme events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events - natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts - on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues - such as fear of failure in starting a business venture,...

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Why do relatively few economists work on climate change? : a survey

Pestel, Nico; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

Climate change is sometimes viewed as the most serious problem facing modern society. The science behind anthropogenic global warming has been understood for more than half a century. Yet relatively few economists work on topics related to climate change. What explains this (apparent) lack of...

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Institutions, culture, and wetland values

Mayula Chaikumbung; Doucouliagos, Chris; Scarborough, Helen - 2018

Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We assess three dimensions of institutional quality: economic...

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Human capital and climate change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...

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Does management matter in schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Managerial practices and students' performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

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Management, supervision, and health care : a field experiment

Dunsch, Felipe Alexander; Evans, David K.; Eze-Ajoku, Ezinne - 2017

of a health care management consulting intervention. One set of PHCs received a detailed improvement plan and nine months …

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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