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The question of whether laws affect attitudes has inspired scholars across many disciplines, but empirical knowledge is … law criminalizing the purchase of sexual services, we assess the short-run effects on attitudes using a difference …-in-differences approach. In the general population, the law did not affect moral attitudes toward prostitution. However, in the Norwegian …
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Using survey data from Norway and Sweden, we assess people’s attitudes towards gender equality. Previous studies argue … that these attitudes are more egalitarian in Sweden than in Norway. Similar to previous research, we find that Swedes are …
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Using a larger and more representative sample than previous studies, we assess people’s attitudes toward prostitution … sophisticated statistical methods that can shed further light on attitudes toward different aspects of prostitution while … correlated with more positive attitudes toward buying, but not toward selling, sex. Norwegians are more positive than Swedes …
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carbon price creating incentives for cost efficient reductions of emitted green house gases. In this article we perform an …
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the determinants of firms' tax toleration and tax compliance receive broad support from empirical analyses of enterprise …
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In countries where insurance and credit markets are thin or missing, production and consumption risks play a critical role in the choice and use of production inputs and adoption of new farm technologies. In this paper, we investigated impacts of chemical fertilizer and soil and water...
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This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. We exploited its length to trace the trajectory of TFP and other...
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Prior to the launch of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in 2005, the electricity sector was widely proclaimed to have more low-cost emission abatement opportunities than other sectors. If this were true, effects of the EU ETS on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would likely be visible in...
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Gold is frequently mined in rainforests that can provide either gold or forest benefits, but not both. This conflict in resource use occurs in Ghana, a developing country in the tropics where the capital needed for mining is obtained from foreign direct investment (FDI). We use a dynamic model...
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The paper analyzes stock-price reactions to stock recommendations published in printed Swedish media and also trading volumes at and around the publication day, bid/ask spreads, and the post-publication drift in recommended stocks for the period 1995-2000. Its small size and limited number of...
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