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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Criscuolo, Chiara - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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Elephants
Kremer, Michael - 1996
Existing models of open-access resources are applicable to non-storable resources, such as fish. Many open-access resources, however, are used to produce storable goods. Elephants, rhinos, and tigers are three prominent examples. Anticipated future scarcity of these resources will increase...
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Payment for Environmental Services : Hypotheses and Evidence
Alston, Lee J. - 2013
The use of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is not a new type of contract but they have become more in vogue because of the potential for sequestering carbon by paying to prevent deforestation and degradation of forest lands. We provide a framework utilizing transaction costs to...
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Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets : Markets for Florida Wetlands
Aronoff, Daniel; Rafey, Will - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We introduce an empirical framework for valuing markets in environmental offsets. Using newly-collected data on wetland conservation and offsets, we apply this framework to evaluate a set of decentralized markets in Florida, where land developers purchase offsets from a small number of...
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Pricing the Priceless : The Financial Cost of Biodiversity Conservation
Chen, Fukang; Chen, Minhao; Cong, Lin William; Gao, Haoyu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The pace of biodiversity loss requires drastic shifts in conservation efforts that carry substantial costs. We investigate how the financial market prices such conservation costs exploiting the "Green Shield Action," a major regulatory initiative launched by the Chinese central government in...
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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2020
We study the role of perceived threats from cultural diversity induced by terrorist attacks and a salient criminal event on public discourse and voters' support for far-right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine...
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Gender and Culture
Giuliano, Paola - 2020
This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481273
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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010
innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …
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Does Culture Matter?
Fernández, Raquel - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462380
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National Cultures and Soccer Violence
Miguel, Edward - 2008
Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle … the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …
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