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Leadership and Climate Policy
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement encourage the developed countries to take a lead in reducing emissions. Does a country benefit from taking a lead? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer...
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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity
den Bijgaart, Inge van; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...
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Measuring "Group Cohesion" to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production
Gaechter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022
We introduce “group cohesion” to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the “oneness scale” from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong...
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Fiscal and Regulatory Instruments for Clean Technology Development in the European Union
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 2015
This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
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Should We Give Up After Solyndra? Optimal Technology R&D Portfolios under Uncertainty
Webster, Mort D.; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Popp, David; … - 2015
Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...
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The optimal climate policy portfolio when knowledge spills across sectors
Massetti, Emanuele; Nicita, Lea - 2010
This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school … athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of … this legislation. Girls' sports participation rose dramatically both following the enactment of Title IX and subsequent to …
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The Green Industrial Revolution – Investment Pathways to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector in Europe
Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023
The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...
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Climate Damages in Convergence-Consistent Growth Projections
Harding, Anthony; Moreno-Cruz, Juan; Quaas, Martin F.; … - 2023
Projections of climate change damages based on climate-econometric estimates suggest that, without mitigation, global warming could reduce average global incomes by over 20% towards the end of the century (Burke et al., 2015). This figure significantly surpasses climate damages in Integrated...
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Temperature and Joint Time Use
Cosaert, Sam; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023
We combine exogenous variation in temperature at the county-day level in the U.S. with daily time use data to examine the effect of temperature on joint time use. We show that low temperatures reduce time spent with friends but increase time spent with family. Conversely, high temperatures...
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