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Forced Displacement and Human Capital : Evidence from Separated Siblings
Chiovelli, Giorgio; Michalopulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the impact of conflict-driven displacement on human capital. We focus on the Mozambican civil war (1977-1992), during which more than four million civilians fled to the countryside, cities, and refugee camps and settlements in neighboring countries. We leverage the full post-war...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794617
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Incomplete Environmental Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and Emissions Leakage
Fowlie, Meredith - 2008
For political, jurisdictional and technical reasons, environmental regulation of industrial pollution is often … incomplete: regulations apply to only a subset of facilities contributing to a pollution problem. Policymakers are increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464226
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Do Oligopolists Pollute Less? Evidence from a Restructured Electricity Market
Mansur, Erin T. - 2007
market. Air pollution fell substantially during 1999, the year in which both electricity restructuring and new environmental … pollution reductions. The remaining third can be attributed to firms exercising market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465135
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Is Real-Time Pricing Green? The Environmental Impacts of Electricity Demand Variance
Holland, Stephen P. - 2007
Real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity would improve allocative efficiency and limit wholesalers' market power. Conventional wisdom claims that RTP provides additional environmental benefits. This paper argues that RTP will reduce the variance, both within- and across-days, in the quantity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465138
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Costly Blackouts? Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages
Fisher-Vanden, Karen - 2012
In many countries, unreliable inputs, particularly those lacking storage, can significantly limit a firm's productivity. In the case of an increasing frequency of blackouts, a firm may change factor shares in a number of ways. It may decide to self generate electricity, to purchase intermediate...
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Accelerating energy innovation : insights from multiple sectors
Henderson, Rebecca (ed.); Newell, Richard G. (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009237697
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How Economic Development Influences the Environment
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review article discusses one way in which these problems are intertwined: economic development affects the environment. I synthesize recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616638
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Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China's Environment
Dean, Judith M. - 2008
production within these goods. Using Chinese official environmental data on air and water pollution, and official trade data, we … relatively cleaner, highly fragmented sectors, and (3) the pollution intensity of Chinese exports has fallen dramatically between … standard model of the pollution intensity of trade, we develop a model that explicitly introduces production fragmentation into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464787
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Inequality Before Birth : The Developmental Consequences of Environmental Toxicants
Persico, Claudia - 2016
Millions of tons of hazardous wastes have been produced in the United States in the last 60 years which have been dispersed into the air, into water, and on and under the ground. Using new population-level data that follows cohorts of children born in the state of Florida between 1994 and 2002,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456412
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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010
This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization entails, necessarily but not exclusively, positive...
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