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Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations : A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies

Perrons, Robert K. - 2020

The challenge of mitigating climate change has focused recent attention on basic scientific research feeding into the development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping processes involving: (1) the production of scientific...

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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...

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The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies

Aldy, Joseph E. - 2011

The pollution haven hypothesis suggests that unilateral domestic climate change mitigation policy would impose significant economic costs on carbon-intensive industries, resulting in declining output and increasing net imports. In order to evaluate this hypothesis, we undertake a two-step...

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Early Stimulation and Nutrition : The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention

Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2018

nutritional intervention through public large-scale parenting support services for vulnerable families in rural Colombia, known as …

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Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training : Experimental Evidence from Colombia

Barrera, Felipe - 2020

We randomly assign applicants to over-subscribed programs to study the effects of teaching hard and soft skills in vocational training and examine their impacts on skills acquisition and labor market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. We find that providing vocational training...

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Immigration and Violent Crime : Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border

Knight, Brian G. - 2020

the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the …

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The Weak State Trap

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Molina, Carlos; Robinson, James Alan - 2020

Development outcomes come in 'clusters' that seem difficult to exit. Using original data from Colombia, we present …

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U.S. Robots and their Impacts in the Tropics : Evidence from Colombian Labor Markets

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2020

specifically focus in Colombia's labor market, and how the automation in the U.S. impacts Colombian workers by replacing exports … from Colombia for cheaper robot-made U.S. products. We use employer-employee matched data from the Colombian social … the U.S. are displacing workers in Colombia. We find that U.S. robots decrease employment and earnings for Colombian …

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Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Attanasio, Orazio - 2008

of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 on the employment and earnings of …

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Conditional Cash Transfers in Education Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

Barrera, Felipe - 2008

We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the conditional cash transfer (CCT) -- with a student level randomization that allows us to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. We test three treatments: a basic CCT...

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