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Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning

Dietz, Simon; Fankhauser, Samuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

There is an increasing demand for putting a shadow price on the environment to guide public policy and incentivise private behaviour. In practice, setting that price can be extremely difficult as uncertainties abound. There is often uncertainty not just about individual parameters but about the...

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The costs of adaptation

Fankhauser, Samuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Policy interest in the cost of adaptation is growing, but compared to the mitigation literature adaptation cost research is still in its infancy. Global adaptation cost estimates from more recent studies range from around $25 billion a year to well over $100 billion by 2015-2030. The wide range...

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On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis

Dietz, Simon; Hepburn, Cameron - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Conventional cost-benefit analysis incorporates the normally reasonable assumption that the policy or project under examination is marginal in the sense that it will not significantly change relative prices. In particular, it is assumed that the policy or project does not change the underlying...

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High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change

Dietz, Simon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

To what extent does economic analysis of climate change depend on low-probability, high-impact events? This question has received a great deal of attention lately, with the contention increasingly made that climate damage could be so large that societal willingness to pay to avoid extreme...

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Cost-benefit analysis of psychological therapy

Layard, Richard; Clark, David; Knapp, Martin; Mayraz, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

At present six million people are suffering from clinical depression or anxiety disorders, but only a quarter of them are in treatment. NICE Guidelines prescribe the offer of evidence-based psychological therapy, but they are not implemented, due to lack of therapists within the NHS. We...

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Cost-benefit analysis of psychological therapy

Layard, Richard; Clark, David; Knapp, Martin; Mayraz, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

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Strategic appraisal of environmental risks: a contrast between the UK’s Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and its Committee on Radioactive Waste Management

Dietz, Simon; Morton, Alec - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

In this paper we compare two high-profile strategic policy reviews undertaken for the UK government on environmental risks: radioactive waste management and climate change. These reviews took very different forms, both in terms of analytic approach and deliberation strategy. The Stern Review on...

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Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: non-cognitive skills, ability and education

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...

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Social exclusion and children: a European view for a US debate

Micklewright, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …

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Primary school children’s internet skills: a report on performance tests of operational, formal, information, and strategic internet skills

Van Deursen, Alexander J.A.M.; Görzig, Anke; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

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