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The seasonality of conflict
Guardado, Jenny; Pennings, Steven - 2020
This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper provides a new test of this "opportunity cost mechanism" using one of the largest shocks to labor demand in agricultural societies: harvest. Theoretically, the paper shows that...
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Paying attention to profitable investments : experimental evidence from renewable energy markets
Coville, Aidan; Orozco-Olvera, Victor H.; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2019
This paper provides an explanation for why many information campaigns fail to affect decision-making. The authors experimentally show that a large information intervention about a profitable and climate-friendly household investment had limited effects if it only provided generic data. In...
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An evaluative look behind the curtain : World Bank Group staff's early experience with the shared prosperity goal
Smets, Lodewijk; Bogetić, Željko - 2018
In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as fostering the growth in the income of the poorest 40 percent of the population in each...
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Gender pension gaps in a private retirement accounts system : a dynamic model of household labor supply and savings
Joubert, Clément; Todd, Petra - 2020
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement …
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The Nollywood nudge : an entertaining approach to saving
Coville, Aidan; Di Maro, Vincenzo; Dunsch, Felipe Alexander - 2019
behavior. This treatment is interacted with the option of opening a savings account at the screening of the movie. At the exit … of the screening, individuals in the financial education movie treatment are more likely to open a savings account than … individuals in the placebo movie treatment. However, the effects dissipate quickly. When savings and borrowing behavior is …
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Do cash transfers foster resilience? : evidence from rural Niger
Premand, Patrick; Stoeffler, Quentin - 2020
drought shocks. It analyzes mechanisms through which cash transfers contribute to resilience, such as savings facilitation … increase savings. They also help households protect earnings in agriculture and off-farm businesses when shocks occur. Few … poor households can foster resilience by facilitating savings and income smoothing …
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Integrating variable renewable energy in the Bangladesh power system : a planning analysis
Bankuti, Miklos; Chattopadhyay, Debabrata; Song, Chong-Suk - 2018
Integration of large-scale variable renewable energy (VRE) generation resources-wind and solar-into national grids has been gaining importance as costs of these technologies, especially that of solar, continues to fall rapidly. However, there continues to be a lack of a framework to...
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Demystifying the costs of electricity generation technologies
Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2020
The levelized cost of electricity is the most common indicator used to compare the cost competitiveness of electricity-generating technologies. Several studies claim that some renewable energy technologies, particularly utility-scale solar photovoltaic and onshore wind, are cost-competitive with...
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The economics of sustainability : causes and consequences of energy market transformation
Arezki, Rabah - 2019
The paper deals with the economics of sustainability associated with the transformation of energy markets. It emphasizes the interrelations between technical changes and energy markets and how in turn the resulting transformations alter the sustainability of economic systems that are dependent...
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Tax incentives, bequest motives, and the demand for life insurance: Evidence from two natural experiments in Germany
Sauter, Nicolas; Walliser, Jan; Winter, Joachim - 2010
Whole life insurance plays an important role in household saving. However, empirical evidence on its determinants is scarce. This paper studies two natural experiments to identify the effects of tax incentives and bequest motives on life-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000...
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