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We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...
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This study investigates the main causes and consequences of import and export smuggling and estimates the relative index of smuggling in Iran from 1970 to 2002. The Multiple Indicators - Multiple Causes (MIMIC) econometric modelling is used for a comprehensive analysis of the latent variable of...
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countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy-environment …
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We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
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In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...
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When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common-pool resources, economic analysis has proposed government intervention as the only alternative available. Elinor Ostrom showed that this dichotomy between market and government is not...
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higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …
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equilibrium of a small open economy where the environment is an input to production. Differences in the ability of individuals to … role in the determination of collective choices with respect to the regulation of the environment and of trade. We conclude … by drawing out the implications of the analysis for the study of the political economy of the environment …
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Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we...
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a self-financing policy (based on convex risk measures) is proposed and implemented. …
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