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economic prosperity and rural population aid vaccine administration and delivery efficiency. Delivery efficiency improves in …
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We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...
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We evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The program is implemented in a high-stakes context where the ethnic composition in schools has changed due to a massive influx of...
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We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed, in conjunction with optimal income taxation,...
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We study the interactions between fuel efficiency improvements in the transport sector and the oil market, where the … noticeable effect on the transport sector, but also on other sectors through lower oil prices in the regions that introduce the …
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particularly strongly across generations, such as education and health spending, green energy, and major transport projects. In …
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In three large-scale field experiments with over 32,500 individuals, we investigate whether public transport uptake can …
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show that the disruption in rail transport increases bus ticket sales. Crucially, the effect persists beyond the strike …, indicating that travellers do not return to their originally preferred mode of transport. It is particularly pronounced for …
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This paper analyzes the effect of transport subsidies on the spatial expansion of cities, asking whether subsidies are … a source of undesirable urban sprawl. While the cost-reducing effect of transport subsidies is offset by a higher … expansion of cities. If the transport system exhibits constant returns to scale, the subsidies are inefficient, making the urban …
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unverifiable information and the quality of communication depends on the conflict of interests between the government levels. It is …
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