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What Does Reputation Buy? Differentiation in a Market for Third-Party Auditors
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Pande, Rohini; … - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 314-19
We study differences in quality in the market for third-party environmental auditors in Gujarat, India. We find that, despite the low overall quality, auditors are heterogeneous and some perform well. We posit that these high-quality auditors survive by using their good name to insulate select...
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Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Pande, Rohini; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This paper reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by altering the market...
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Urban climate adaptation and leadership : from conceptual understanding to practical action
Carmin, JoAnn; Dodman, David; Chu, Eric - 2013
The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This report synthesizes key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban adaptation that emerged from the discussions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230711
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Exploring the effect of urban structure on individual well-being
Brown, Zachary S.; Oueslati, Walid; Silva, Jérôme - 2015
Building on the OECD’s Better Life Initiative and new work using geospatial analysis, this paper investigates how reported life satisfaction relates to some of the urban structure indicators. To this end, it merges OECD household survey data with urban structure data from OECD’s Metropolitan...
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The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy Benefits at City Scale : A Conceptual Framework
Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2008
policy implementation, the OECD helps governments to improve their collective and individual environmental performance … develop a shared understanding of the key policy challenges as well as to assess performance and identify good practice in the … series under the OECD Environment Directorate’s project on Cities and Climate Change. The project aims to explore the city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444537
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Cities, Climate Change and Multilevel Governance
Corfee-Morlot, Jan; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Donovan, Michael; … - 2009
Cities represent a challenge and an opportunity for climate change policy. As the hubs of economic activity, cities generate the bulk of GHG emissions and are thus important to mitigation strategies. Urban planning will shape future trends and the concentration of population, socio-economic...
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The Long-term Effects of Early Lead Exposure: Evidence from a case of Environmental Negligence
Rau, Tomás; Reyes, Loreto; Urzúa, Sergio S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
between blood lead levels and student academic performance. We find that an increase of one microgram of lead per deciliter of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969226
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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271429
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Urban Climate Adaptation and Leadership: From Conceptual Understanding to Practical Action
Carmin, JoAnn; Dodman, David; Chu, Eric - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2013
The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This report synthesizes key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban adaptation that emerged from the discussions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277063
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Environmental impacts along food supply chains : Methods, findings, and evidence Gaps
Deconinck, Koen - 2022
Food systems exert major pressures on the environment. This paper reviews what is known and not known about …
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