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Institutions, culture, and wetland values

Mayula Chaikumbung; Doucouliagos, Chris; Scarborough, Helen - 2018

Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of … 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We … wetland valuations. Understanding these important and varying effects of institutions and culture on wetland valuations is …

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How do users Value a network expansion? : evidence from the public transit system in Singapore

Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming - 2016

We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system increased the price of apartments within 0.5 km of a pre-expansion station by...

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Social audits and MGNREGA delivery : lessons from Andhra Pradesh

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - 2014

In spite of widespread acclaims of social audits as low-cost and powerful participatory tools that can bolster awareness and improve public service delivery, a key policy question is what such audits have achieved so far. Using a unique panel data set assembled from official social audit...

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The economic benefits of volunteering and social class

Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, John; Mantovan, Noemi - 2019

A theory that the economic benefits of volunteering are contingent on social class (as defined by similarities in labour market situation) is tested using seven waves of longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Study gathered between 1996 and 2008 and fixed-effects models. Volunteering...

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Subjective well-being and public policy

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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Maternity and family leave policy

Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2017

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world, the existing research yields the following general...

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Mind the gap : crowd-funding and the role of seed money

Deutsch, Joseph; Epstein, Gil S.; Nir, Alon - 2015

We analyze voluntary private contributions to public goods and the role seed money plays in signaling the public good's quality to potential subsequent contributors. We present a theoretical model and analyze two sets of naturally occurring data from crowd-funding platforms. After developing the...

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The effects of longer school days on mothers' labor force participation

Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Oyarzún, Melanie - 2015

Lack of adequate childcare is a main reason women cite for not participating in the labor force. We investigate the effect of a reform that lengthened school schedules from half to full days in Chile - essentially providing zero-cost childcare - on different maternal labor participation...

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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....

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Illegal immigration and fiscal competition

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Pinto, Santiago M. - 2015

Reflecting recent enforcement policy activism of US states, this paper examines federal-state overlap of illegal immigration policy in a spatial context. Keeping the US-Mexico context in mind, we assume that labor from a source nation enters a host nation through bordering states. Once in the...

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