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Automating Automaticity : How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias

Agan, Amanda Y.; Davenport, Diag; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

by carrying out algorithmic audits of Facebook in its two biggest markets, the US and India, focusing on two algorithms …

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Globalization and Pandemics

Antràs, Pol - 2020

We develop a model of human interaction to analyze the relationship between globalization and pandemics. Our framework …

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Think Globally, Act Globally : Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if they invest their resources in...

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Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes

Binder, Ariel J. - 2018

Building on standard marital matching models, we show that a variety of underlying social preferences about a given trait all generate positive assortative matching on that trait, and hence the same distribution of spousal trait differences in equilibrium. Applying this result to U.S. Census and...

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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2005

This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...

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Center Pivot Irrigation Systems as a Form of Drought Risk Mitigation in Humid Regions

Cooley, Daniel J.; Smith, Steven M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has been a nearly threefold increase in center pivot...

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Food Policy in a Warming World

Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...

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Estimating the Effect of Easements on Agricultural Production

Karwowski, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

US crops face higher losses as growing season temperatures rise and destructive disasters become commonplace. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) easement programs offer an adaptation strategy to improve agricultural resilience. Easements impact agricultural production directly by...

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Pace of Adoption of Alternatives to Animal-Source Foods and Climate Goals

Hale, Galina; Onescu, Vlad; Bhangale, Ritesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The global food system is an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions that lead to climate change. Animal agriculture is responsible for a large share of the food-system emissions, both directly and through the production of animal feed. Limiting global warming to the goals set forth by...

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Some New Perspectives on India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009

financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has …In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on … the key challenge now facing India's policymakers on this front …

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