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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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We explore the effects of environmental taxes that imprecisely target pollution. A review of actual policies indicates few (if any) examples of a true tax on pollution. More typically, environmental taxes target an input or output that is correlated with pollution. We construct a simple...
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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057895
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058273
provides some suggestions for a prudent world-domestic institutionalization of risk-management to counter global challenges. …
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Ansatz einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral. Untersucht wird, wie die beiden Ansätze dem moralischen Anliegen vorarbeiten …, die internationale Versorgung mit Arzneimitteln zu verbessern, d.h. wie sie als Theorie dem praktischen Missstand … einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral primär darin, dass in armen Ländern vielfach die institutionellen Voraussetzungen …
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Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this … countries hinder the poor from expressing their needs as actual demand on the market. From a theory point of view, the major …
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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458740
We explore the effects of environmental taxes that imprecisely target pollution. A review of actual policies indicates few (if any) examples of a true tax on pollution. More typically, environmental taxes target an input or output that is correlated with pollution. We construct a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230179