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On the Consequences of the US Withdrawal from the Kyoto/Bonn Protocol
Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
negotiations, its increased bargaining power and its eventual incentives to follow the US defections. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124246
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Can Equity Enhance Efficiency? Some Lessons from Climate Negotiations
Bosello, Francesco; Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper analyses the relationship between different equity rules and the incentives to sign and ratify a climate … the incentives for more countries – particularly big emitters – to accept an emission reduction scheme defined within an … GHG emissions can provide better incentives to sign and ratify a climate agreement than the burden sharing implicit in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136584
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Fertility and Financial Incentives in France
Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
here empirically the link between fertility and financial incentives by estimating and simulating a joint structural model … of participation and fertility on a sample of French women. Our results suggest that fertility responds to incentives in … a non-negligible way. The results, however, also have some puzzling features: financial incentives appear to have much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789152
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Stable Coalitions
Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
relationship between the incentives to defect from a coalition, the size of the resulting equilibrium coalition structure and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791385
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The Cost of Grade Retention
Manacorda, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper uses administrative longitudinal micro data on Junior High school students in Uruguay to measure the effect of grade failure on students’ subsequent school outcomes. Exploiting the discontinuity induced by a rule establishing automatic grade failure for pupils with more than three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527528
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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973967
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Government Transfers and Political Support
Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; Vigorito, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty program - the Uruguayan PANES - on political support for the government that implemented it. The program mainly consisted of a monthly cash transfer for a period of roughly two and half years. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011856
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Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation Using Microgeographic Data
Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent; Overman, Henry G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study the impact of local taxation on the location and growth of firms. Our empirical methodology pairs establishments across jurisdictional boundaries to estimate the impact of taxation. Our approach improves on existing work as it corrects for unobserved establishment heterogeneity, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504532
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We apply a regression discontinuity design to estimate the returns to being elected to parliament or to a municipal council. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness in any electoral system, and apply it to the Finnish proportional open list system. Getting elected to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145442
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National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that the arbitrary political boundaries in the eve of African independence partitioned more than two hundred ethnic groups across different countries subjecting similar cultures,...
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