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We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison group. Heavier husbands are found to work...
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We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a nationally representative sample. We are the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all...
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This paper deals with some variables that are not generally included as economic or market variables in order to show how these affect the question of population growth, which is after all the core of resource allocation. It shows that population growth may also depend on better medical...
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In this partial equilibrium and static model, the impact of environmentalism on two countries' environmental policies … negative term in the welfare function in Home. It is defined as passive environmentalism (PE). Second, this article is a first … attempt to consider domestic environmentalists lobbying a foreign government. It is defined as active environmentalism (AE …
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The present stalemate in climate negotiations has led policy analysts and economists to explore the possible emergence …
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comparison of the social, the environmental and the economic dimensions of the policy’s impact. This is commonly done in a … impacts of the policy are considered. The methodology computes competitive advantages as well as relative efficiencies of … policy (in the present paper we use the FEEM RICE model), as well as the choice of indicators for costs and benefits …
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, participation and optimal policy should be jointly analysed. Moreover, our results show that the US, Russia and China have different …
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paper aims at exploring whether a different policy approach could lead more countries to adopt effective climate control … policies. This policy approach is explicitly bottom-up, namely it gives each country the freedom to sign agreements and deals … provides a game-theoretic assessment of this policy approach and then evaluates empirically the possible endogenous emergence …
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Many international treaties come into force only after a minimum number of countries have signed and ratified the treaty. Why do countries agree to introduce a minimum participation constraint among the rules characterising an international treaty? This question is particularly relevant in the...
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with respect to its position on climate policy. As a consequence, the factors that shape Russia’s behaviour in the context …
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