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Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2011
responsibility (CSR) in order to offset corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). We find general support for the causal relationship … CSR, we find evidence of heterogeneity among industries, where the effect is stronger in industries where CSI tends to be … CSR and CSI. Within the categories of community relations, environment, and human rights--arguably among those dimensions …
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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented : A Reexamination of the Evidence From the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J. - 2010
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462417
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The Sputtering Labor Force of the 21st Century. Can Social Policy Help?
Ellwood, David T. - 2001
This paper examines two questions: how will the labor force change over the next 20 years, and can social policy significantly alter its size and shape. In the last twenty years, the overall labor force grew by 35 percent and the so-called prime age workforce those aged 25-54 grew by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470403
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Why do people stay poor?
Balboni, Clare; Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
There are two broad views as to why people stay poor. One emphasizes differences in fundamentals, such as ability, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To test between these two views, we exploit a large-scale,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660018
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The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in England
Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A.; Whitfill, Parker J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What is the impact of warfare on inequality and the social contract? Using local data on bombing, the evolution of wealth inequality and vote shares for the Labour Party in England around World War II we establish two results. First, on average, we find no impact of bombing on inequality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814452
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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019
The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean's interest list, and...
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The Impact of Diversity on Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution
Londoño Vélez, Juliana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Does diversity affect people's perceptions of income distribution and their preferences for redistribution? I leverage variation from a Colombian financial aid reform boosting the share of low-income students at an elite university. Combining college records and original survey data, I study how...
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Do Property Rights Alleviate the Problem of the Commons? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights
Ayres, Andrew B. - 2019
Property rights are widely prescribed for addressing overextraction of common pool resources, yet causal evidence of their effectiveness remains elusive. We develop a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial regression discontinuity design exploiting a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480212
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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
Grafton, R. Quentin - 2010
the three 'pillars' of integrated water resource management: economic efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability …
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How Can Policy Encourage Economically Sensible Climate Adaptation?
Smith, V. Kerry - 2010
This paper considers the role of incentive based climate adaptation policies. It uses the early literature on pricing and capacity choices under demand uncertainty to describe how revised price structures for the substitutes for climate services can be treated as anticipatory adaptation. In many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462556