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-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 …
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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This paper studies the costs and benefits of the adoption of the policy of free movement for workers. For the countries to agree on uncontrolled movement of workers, the short run costs must be outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income...
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A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
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We study the long-run impacts of health insurance promotion in Northern Ghana. We randomly provide three overlapping interventions to promote enrollment: subsidy, information campaign, and convenient sign-up option, with follow-up surveys seven months and three years after the initial...
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Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada …
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and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …
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Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …
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