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Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance

Heissel, Jennifer - 2019

We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for …

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Cruz, Juan Moreno - 2013

We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...

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Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation

Knittel, Christopher R. - 2012

The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....

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The Real State : Inside the Congo's Traffic Police Agency

Sanchez de la Sierra, Raul; Titeca, Kristof; Xie, Haoyang; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

's traffic police agency is to manage traffic and to enforce the traffic code. We first document that, in the capital's branch …, Kinshasa, traffic violation fines account for only 22% of the revenue of the branch. The remaining 78%, unofficial, comes from … first mandate, while not improving its ability to fulfill the second. First, the quota causes 65% of all traffic jams and …

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Global Transportation Decarbonization

Rapson, David S.; Muehlegger, Erich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Replacing fossil fuels in the name of decarbonization is necessary but will be particularly difficult due to their as-yet unrivaled bundle of attributes: abundance, ubiquity, energy density, transportability and cost. There is a growing commitment to electrification as the dominant...

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How Can Inclusive Agricultural Health Policy Intervention Promote Shared Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria? Evidence from Randomized Control Trial

Olowogbon, Toyin Samuel - 2019

randomly assigned crop farmers from 24 farming communities in Nigeria. Structured questionnaire, interviews and random farm …

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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change : Fighting HIV with MTV

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019

individual or a social channel. We conducted a randomized controlled trial in urban Nigeria where young viewers were exposed to …

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Winners and Losers from Sovereign Debt Inflows

Broner, Fernando - 2020

We study the transmission of sovereign debt inflow shocks on domestic firms. We exploit episodes of large sovereign debt inflows in six emerging countries that are due to the announcements of these countries' inclusion in two major local-currency sovereign debt indexes. We show that these...

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Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms

Maue, Casey C. - 2020

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that these differences persist through time, with important implications for the broader macroeconomy. These stylized facts derive largely from studies of manufacturing firms in wealthy...

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Borders, Ethnicity and Trade

Aker, Jenny C. - 2010

developing countries (Niger and Nigeria). Using a regression discontinuity approach, we find a significant price change at the …

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