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Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Redlick, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Social capital is often place-specific while schooling is portable, so the prospect of migration may reduce the returns to social capital and increase the returns to schooling. If social capital matters for urban success, it is possible that an area can get caught in a bad equilibrium where the...

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Productivity, equity, and sustainability : a trilemma for contemporary human development?

Tassinari, Mattia - In: International review of applied economics 37 (2023) 5, pp. 575-606

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Understanding and overcoming roadblocks to environmental sustainability : past roads and future prospects

Bergquist, Ann-Kristin; Cole, Shawn; Ehrenfeld, John; … - In: Business history review 93 (2019) 1, pp. 127-148

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Chapter 10. Environmental Risk and Uncertainty

Aldy, Joseph E.; Kip Viscusi, W. - In: Handbook of the economics of risk and uncertainty : volume 1, (pp. 601-649). 2014

Environmental risks may comprise the most important policy-related application of the economics of risk and uncertainty. Many biases in risk assessment and regulation, such as the conservatism bias in risk assessment and the stringent regulation of synthetic chemicals, reflect a form of...

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From green jobs to Green New Deal : what are the questions?

Stilwell, Frank J. B. - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 32 (2021) 2, pp. 155-169

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Equity in Climate Change: An Analytical Review

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - In: World Development 40 (2012) 6, pp. 1083-1097

This paper presents an analytical framework to encompass contributions to the literature on equity in climate change …, and highlights the consequences—in terms of future emissions allocations—of different approaches to equity. These include …, each of the approaches to equity necessarily imposes large costs on at least some groups of countries. …

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Analyzing the religious war of words over climate change

Landrum, Nancy E.; Tomaka, Connor; McCarthy, John - In: Journal of macromarketing : examining the interactions … 36 (2016) 4, pp. 471-482

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Finance and Climate Resilience : Evidence from the long 1950s US Drought

Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Ramcharan, Rodney - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how the availability of credit shapes adaptation to a climatic shock, specifically, the long 1950s US drought. We find that bank lending, net immigration, and population growth decline sharply in drought exposed areas with limited initial access to bank finance. In contrast,...

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Searching for a mobilizing narrative on climate change

Jerneck, Anne - In: The journal of environment & development : a review of … 23 (2014) 1, pp. 15-40

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Is it too late for growth?

Schor, Juliet B.; Jorgenson, Andrew K. - In: Review of radical political economics 51 (2019) 2, pp. 320-329

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