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Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation

Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...

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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices

Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022

We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...

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Melancholy hues : the futility of green growth and degrowth, and the inevitability of societal collapse

Naudé, Wim - 2023

The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...

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We already live in a degrowth world, and we do not like it

Naudé, Wim - 2023

The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" - a reduction in GDP in advanced economies - to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth - a Great Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its correlates,...

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Competitive work environments and social preferences : field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); Seki, Erika (contributor) - 2005

Models of job tournaments and competitive workplaces more generally predict that while individual effort may increase as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report on a field experiment conducted with workers from a...

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Estimating the size of external effects of energy subsidies

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Vagliasindi, Maria - 2015

(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …

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Something in the air? : pollution, allergens and children's cognitive functioning

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016

Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has focused almost exclusively on the effects of human-made pollutants, and has not fully distinguished between contemporaneous and long-run effects. This paper contributes on both of...

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The effect of pollution on worker productivity : evidence from call-center workers in China

Chang, Tom; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Gross, Tal; … - 2016

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

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Air pollution affects decision-making: evidence from the ballot box

Bellani, Luna; Ceolotto, Stefano; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2021

in Germany over a nineteen-year period and exploit plausibly exogenous variation in ambient air pollution within counties …

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The spillover effects of pollution : how exposure to lead affects everyone in the classroom

Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - 2020

Evidence shows that lead-exposed children are more disruptive and have lower achievement. However, we know less about how lead-exposed children affect the learning environment of their classroom peers. We estimate these spillover effects using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs)...

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