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Technological vs ecological switch and the environmental Kuznets curve
Boucekkine, Raouf; Pommeret, Aude; Prieur, Fabien - HAL - 2011
We consider an optimal technology adoption AK model in line with Boucekkine Krawczyk and Vallée (2011): an economy, caring about consumption and pollution as well, starts with a given technological regime and may decide to switch at any moment to a cleaner technology at a given permanent or...
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How does the design of international environmental agreements affect investment in environmentally friendly technologies ?
Bayramoglu, Basak - HAL - 2007
This paper studies the link between the design of international environmental agreements and the incentives for the private sector to invest in cleaner technologies. More specifically, it compares the performance, in the Paretoo sense, of two types of agreement : an agreement on a uniform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750555
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Trade, technology adoption and wage inequalities: theory and evidence
Bas, Maria - HAL - 2008
This paper develops a trade model with heterogeneous firms introducing a fixed technology cost and different types of skilled labor. The main contribution is to explain the effects of trade integration on the extensive margin of technology adoption and its impact on wage inequalities. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738950
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Household Adoption of Water-Efficient Equipment : The Role of Socio-economic Factors, Environmental Attitudes and Policy
Millock, Katrin; Nauges, Céline - HAL - 2010
Using survey data of around 10,000 households from 10 OECD countries, we identify the driving factors of household adoption of water-efficient equipment by estimating Probit models of a household's probability to invest in such equipment. The results indicate that environmental attitudes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603669
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Determinants of diffusion and adoption of improved technology for rice parboiling in Benin
Dandedjrohoun, Lidia; Diagne, Aliou; Biaou, Gauthier; … - HAL - 2012
The widespread use of traditional rice-parboiling methods in Benin leads to poor quality of final rice. To address this problem, the national agricultural research institute of Benin and Africa Rice Center have developed improved rice parboiling technology. An educational video developed by...
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Subsidising network technology adoption the case of publishers and E-readers
Matttia De' Grassi Di Pianura - HAL - 2012
To market a new network technology effectively, manufacturers need to understand the structure and size of network effects associated with the product. If consumers' surplus from adoption depends positively on the number of interconnections in the network, early adopters may need to be...
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Environmental Policy and Growth in a Model with Endogenous Environmental Awareness
Constant, Karine; Davin, Marion - HAL - 2014
determined by education and pollution. The government can implement a tax on pollution and recycle the revenue in public … pollution abatement and/or education subsidy (influencing green behaviors). When agent's preferences for the environment are … the tax revenue is well allocated between education and direct environmental protection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933820
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Child Income as an Insurance Mechanism. Consequences for the Health-Education Relationship
Bourlès, Renaud; Ventelou, Bruno; Woode, Maame Esi - HAL - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationships between HIV/AIDS and education taking into account the appropriative nature of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933825
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The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission
Bervoets, Sebastian; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - HAL - 2012
mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933827
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Accounting for Peer Effects in Treatment Response
Dieye, Rokhaya; Djebbari, Habiba; Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - HAL - 2014
When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
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