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Can reminders promote regular pro-environmental behavior? : experimental evidence from Peru
Fuhrmann, Hanna; D'Exelle, Ben; López Vargas, Kristian; … - 2024
-environmental behavior. To fill this gap, we investigate the impact of mobile text reminders on households' recycling behavior in urban Peru … the likelihood that households start to recycle, and the frequency of recycling among households that already recycled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535248
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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339613
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A review of the circular economy and its implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449209
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North-South displacement effects of environmental regulation: the case of battery recycling
Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric - 2021
battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants …, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, production … increased at battery-recycling plants, relative to comparable industries, and birth outcomes deteriorated within two miles of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607308
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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2007
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003634616
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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U" profile?
Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007
Britain and Germany looking at two longitudinal datasets (BHPS and GSOEP respectively) for years 1995-2004. It stresses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637282
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Analyzing the labor market activity of immigrant families in Germany
Basilio, Leilanie (contributor);  … - 2007
the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637427
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Initial risk matrix, home resources, ability development and children's achievement
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755918
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755931
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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? : evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst (contributor); Spengler, Hannes (contributor) - 2008
diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759023