Policies to encourage pro-environmental behaviors must be based on an understanding of the factors that affect it: the literature has identified a role for information, attitudes, moral norms and several socio-demographic characteristics. Pro-environmental behaviors are however not homogeneous...

We discuss the effects of the care drain on human capital accumulation in developing countries, a potentially important downside of the phenomenon that has not been yet formally investigated: whilst recent literature on the brain drain suggests that it may not hamper human capital formation in...

The research agendas of psychologists and economists now have several overlaps, with behavioural economics providing theoretical and experimental study of the relationship between behaviour and choice, and hedonic psychology discussing appropriate measures of outcomes of choice in terms of...

We look at the educational choice of parents for their children, when the level of education a¤ects individual values. This approach may be applied to the analysis of temporal changes in values and attitudes in a community of immigrants.

Our paper contributes to current debates around work-life balance and the efficiency and wellbeing costs associated with different models of work and childcare (Gregory and Connolly, 2008). It also contributes from a gender perspective to the life satisfaction literature by providing a test for...

The paper provides a framework to analyses trust-based projects which can be used as a diagnostic tool to design more effective policy intervention, particularly addressing the problem of meeting users needs for which many microfinance scheme have come under criticism. the theory is developed on...

The expected response of individuals to policy changes usually requires that they use their resources in a different way, according to the changed relative opportunity cost of undertaking each that the policy effects. However, it has often been noted that the allocation of time to different...

Whilst there is an abundant supply of theoretical and empirical contributions in cooperative bargaining models on the transfer of material resources within couples and the labour supply patterns of individuals in couples, this literature has so far not been interested in measuring empirically...

The paper reviews the literature on social capital and development and identifies key properties of this concept that are then used in a model illustrating the potential welfare effects from social capital, in terms of both wellbeing and economic benefits. The model focuses on access to inputs...