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Ecosystems and human health : the local benefits of forest cover in Indonesia

Garg, Teevrat - 2019

This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...

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Payment for ecosystem services from forests

Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014

rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity … the design of local and international policy instruments to prevent further deforestation and encourage forest growth … to slow and reverse deforestation. We cover the most recent work touching on a range of issues related to PES programs …

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The ecological impact of place-based economic policies

Garg, Teevrat; Shenoy, Ajay - 2020

Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...

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Electoral incentives and the allocation of public funds

Finan, Frederico S.; Mazzocco, Maurizio - 2016

It is widely believed that politicians allocate public resources in ways to maximize political gains. But what is less clear is whether this comes at a cost to welfare; and if so, whether alternative electoral rules can help reduce these costs. In this paper, we address both of these questions by...

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One-child policy, marriage distortion, and welfare loss

Huang, Wei; Zhou, Yi - 2015

Using plausibly exogenous variations in the ethnicity-specific assigned birth quotas and different fertility penalties across Chinese provinces over time, we provide new evidence for the transferable utility model by showing how China's One-Child Policy induced a significantly higher unmarried...

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Discrimination as favoritism : the private benefits and social costs of in-group favoritism in an experimental labor market

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Peterlé, Emmanuel - 2017

In this paper, we examine labor market favoritism in a unique laboratory experiment design that can shed light on both the private benefits and spillover costs of employer favoritism (or discrimination). Group identity is induced on subjects such that each laboratory "society"consists of eight...

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Rational migration policy should tolerate non-zero illegal migration flows : lessons from modelling the market for illegal migration

Entorf, Horst - 2000

The debate on the immigration policies in OECD countries has turned its attention towards illegal migrants. Given that migration flows are determined by immigration laws, the probability of potential detection, penalties for unauthorised migrants and their employers, and on income differences...

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Output costs of education and skill mismatch

Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2020

We propose a simple theory of under- and over-employment. Individuals of high type can perform both skilled and unskilled jobs, but only a fraction of low-type workers can perform skilled jobs. People have different non-pecuniary values over these jobs, akin to a Roy model. We calibrate two...

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The impact of air pollution on attributable risks and economic costs of hospitalization for mental disorders

Wu, Ziting; Chen, Xi; Li, Guoxing; Lin, Tian; Wang, Zhan; … - 2020

This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders (MDs). We identify the relationship between PM2.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in...

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The social cost of unemployment : the Spanish labour market from a social welfare approach

Gorjón, Lucía; Rica, Sara de la; Villar, Antonio - 2018

This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both unemployment duration and the associated income loss;...

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