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Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics : opportunities and challenges
Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
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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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Why do relatively few economists work on climate change? : a survey
Pestel, Nico; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
Climate change is sometimes viewed as the most serious problem facing modern society. The science behind anthropogenic global warming has been understood for more than half a century. Yet relatively few economists work on topics related to climate change. What explains this (apparent) lack of...
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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 assess three dimensions of institutional quality: economic...
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Human capital and climate change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023
Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...
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(In)equality and (in)justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
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Transparency, inequity aversion, and the dynamics of peer pressure in teams : theory and evidence
Mohnen, Alwine (contributor); Pokorny, Kathrin (contributor) - 2008
We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...
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Other-regarding preferences and performance pay : an experiment on incentives and sorting
Eriksson, Tor (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Search and offshoring in the presence of "animal spirits"
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831919
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A behavioral account of the labor market : the role of fairness concerns
Fehr, Ernst (contributor); Götte, Lorenz (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...
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