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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011
-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853849
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Can Peers Improve Agricultural Productivity?
Songsermsawas, Tisorn; Baylis, Kathy; Chhatre, Ashwini; … - CESifo - 2014
Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique Indian household survey, we estimate peer effects on agricultural revenue. Results show that 60% of farmers' revenue is explained by peers. Input expenditures and land allocation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948841
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Health, Wealth and Inequality: a Contribution to the Debate about the Relationship between Inequality and Health
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008
The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the 19th century relationship between material inequality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766237
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Living Standards in Black and White: Evidence from the Heights of Ohio Prison Inmates, 1829 – 1913
Carson, Scott A.; Maloney, Thomas N. - CESifo - 2006
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094322
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671708
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Optimal Pest Control in Agriculture
Christiaans, Thomas; Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2005
Based on economic methodology we model an ecosystem with two species in predator-prey relationship: mice feed on grain and grain feeds on a resource. With optimizing behaviour of individual organisms a short-run ecosystem equilibrium is defined and characterized that depends on the farmer’s...
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Using Degree Days to Value Farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert; Chonabayashi, Shun - CESifo - 2014
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105369
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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity—aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory—to social welfare measurement. We suggest a … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607471
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Optimal Forest Management when Logging Damages and Costs Differ between Logging Practices
Indrajaya, Yonky; Werf, Edwin van der; Ierland, Ekko van; … - CESifo - 2014
Papers on optimal harvesting regimes for maximizing land expectation value (LEV) that compare different logging practices often ignore differences in variable costs and in damages on the residual stand between logging practices. We use data on a multi-age, multi-species forest in East-Kalimantan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877701
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Why does Environmental Policy in Representative Democracies Tend to be Inadequate? A Preliminary Public Choice Analysis
Kollmann, Andrea; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2010
There is a widespread consensus among the most important players in developed countries (voters, politicians, producers, traditional and green interest groups and bureaucracies) that a shift towards an eco-social market economy is essential for sustainable growth. Nevertheless, market-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727290