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Ecosystem externalities arise when one use of an ecosystem affects its other uses through the production functions of …
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education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … is instrumented by the number of universities with special status and find positive external returns to education of … rural, men, and low-educated workers. This finding provides the motivation for increasing education investment in rural …
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We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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the development of ecosystem modeling with emphasis on economic aspects of ecology. This was followed by a presentation of …
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This paper presents an examination of the socially efficient formation of environmental R&D in Cournot duopoly in a setting where a regulator has no precommitment ability for an emission tax. The results reveal that if the environmental damage is slight, alternatively, given severe environmental...
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This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...
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-term externalities of binge drinking. We find that these externalities are on average £4.9 billion per year ($7 billion), about £80 for …
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externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing wind directions, we show increased levels of contemporaneous pollution …
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where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the … subsidization, in a competitive environment of firms, may potentially harm non-subsidized firms. …
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