potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be … viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change is a private good, benefiting only the country or the individual that … invests in adaptation. We use a one-shot public-goods game that deviates from the standard public-goods game by introducing a …

Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option …. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice because organic agriculture is a …. The financial requirements of organic agriculture as an adaptation or mitigation strategy are low. Further research is …

This paper is based on a World Bank–sponsored effort to develop a global estimate of adaptation costs, considering the … latitude regions in the long term. Planted forests will offer a major vehicle for adaptation. …

hypothetical. However, although numerous studies have examined the impact of experience with the good on willingness to pay, less … attention has been given to experience with payment vehicles. This paper examines how this influences responses to a contingent … effects of experience with monetary and labor payment vehicles on the acceptance of a contingent valuation scenario and …

workers with different levels of experience reflect differences in productivity? We address this set of questions on the basis … experience, the productivity premium exceeds the wage premium, while the opposite is the case for workers with more than 15 years … of experience. …

This paper investigates whether returns to experience and seniority vary between workers with different levels of … more educated workers have higher experience and seniority premiums, indicating that they accumulate more human capital … experience and seniority premiums. Indicators of technological change seem to be more important for returns to experience and …

analyzes gender-specific impacts as well as anticipation and adaptation to major life and labor market events. We focus on six …. While our results indicate full adaptation to some events, and even more so for women, to others we see no or only partial … less rapid or even no adaptation to widowhood and divorce. Women return to their baseline level of happiness relatively …

Online penny auctions, emerged recently, are seen as an adaptation of the famous dollar auction and as ?the evil …

find that these learning from failure effects are not long-lived and that learning from failure is transmitted across …