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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...
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Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products
Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We use hedonic prices and purchase quantities to consider what can be learned about household willingness to pay for baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large number of households to compute household specific lower...
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Climate Policy and Developing Countries
Gersbach, Hans; Hummel, Noemi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We suggest a development-compatible refunding system designed to mitigate climate change. Industrial countries pay an initial fee into a global fund. Each country chooses its national carbon tax. Part of the global fund is refunded to developing and industrial countries, in proportion to the...
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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2
De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 … pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate matter and SO2 on emergency room admissions and costs in the state of … evidence that particulate pollution increases pulmonary-related hospitalization. Specifically, a one standard deviation …
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Network Structure and Strategic Investments: An Experimental Analysis
Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Weitzel, Utz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of …
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Collective Self Control
Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Behavioral economics presents a "paternalistic" rationale for a benevolent government's intervention. We consider an economy where the only “distortion” is agents’ time inconsistency. We study the desirability of various forms of collective action, ones pertaining to costly commitment and...
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The Impacts of Urban Public Transportation: Evidence from the Paris Region
Mayer, Thierry; Trevien, Corentin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
use the natural experiment offered by the opening and progressive extension of the Regional Express Rail (RER) between …
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Intergenerational inequality aversion, growth and the role of damages: Occam’s rule for the global carbon tax
Rezai, Armon; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We use the Euler equation to put forward a back-on-the-envelope rule for the global carbon tax based on a two-box carbon cycle with temperature lag, and a constant elasticity of marginal damages with respect to GDP. This tax falls with time impatience and intergenerational inequality aversion...
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Abandoning Fossil Fuel: How Fast And How Much?
Rezai, Armon; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Climate change must deal with two market failures, global warming and learning by doing in renewable use. The social optimum requires an aggressive renewables subsidy in the near term and a gradually rising carbon tax which falls in long run. As a result, more renewables are used relative to...
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The effect of audit regimes on applications for long-term care
Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
present evidence from a large-scale field experiment in the Dutch market for long-term care. We find that increasing the …
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