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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 Impacts of Export Taxes on Agricultural Trade
Beckman, Jayson - 2018
prices, and poverty in the agriculture sector. We first focus on how export taxes have impacted trade and international …, vegetables, oilseeds and oils. We then use a computable general equilibrium model to examine the impacts to trade and poverty if …
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Negotiations of Oil and Gas Auxiliary Lease Clauses : Evidence from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale
Harleman, Max; Manohar, Pramod; Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Oil and gas lease negotiations provide mineral owners the opportunity to negotiate for both compensation and auxiliary clauses that may protect their health and properties. We use optical character recognition to assemble a novel dataset of compensation and specific clauses in nearly 60,000...
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The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health
Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The benefits and costs of resource extraction are currently being hotly debated in the case of unconventional natural gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health impacts of conventional and unconventional forms of oil and...
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Keeping Up with the Jansens : Causal Peer Effects on Household Spending, Beliefs and Happiness
Rooij, Maarten van; Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How strong are peer effects on the beliefs and spending decisions of individuals? We use a randomized control study in which treated households are told about either average income or debt of individuals like them to assess how peer effects influence their beliefs and spending. The information...
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Cost-Sharing in Medical Care Can Increase Adult Mortality : Evidence from Colombia
Buitrago, Giancarlo; Amaya-Nieto, Javier; Miller, Grant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
distribution, we estimate a dynamic regression discontinuity model, finding that greater outpatient cost-sharing initially reduces …
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Measuring Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture : An Equilibrium Perspective on Supply-Side Approaches
Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A popular approach for estimating climate change impacts on agriculture is to rely on supply-side reduced-form regressions. These methods, which include the Ricardian approach, focus on how farmers and agricultural land market react to changes in climatic conditions, under the implicit...
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China's Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System : A General Equilibrium Assessment
Goulder, Lawrence H.; Long, Xianling; Qu, Chenfei; Zhang, Da - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
China's recently launched CO2 emissions trading system, already the world's largest, aims to contribute importantly toward global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The system, a tradable performance standard (TPS), differs importantly from cap and trade (C&T), the principal emissions...
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The microWELT-US microsimulation model for projections of the US labour force participation accounting for education and health : technical report
Amann, Johannes; Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2021
This technical report presents the dynamic microsimulation model microWELT-US developed for US labour force projections … accounting for education and health. microWELT-US is the adaptation of an existing microsimulation model for Europe. The … microsimulation model supports a comparative analysis of the effect of socio-demographic change on future labour force participation …
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The Impact of Health and Education on Labor Force Participation in Aging Societies – Projections for the United States and Germany from a Dynamic Microsimulation
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using a highly stylized dynamic microsimulation model, we project the labor force of the United States up to the year …. This has strong implications for their labor force developments. According to our microsimulation, the US labor force will …
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