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International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail … that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the abatement game faced by climate negotiators is a …
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This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
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This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...
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Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...
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set of available data and policy models and combines them in a way that is informative for mapping the gains and losses at … and tax-transfer policy models (needed for assessing government policies that aim to cushion or offset carbon-tax burdens … cushioning losses for large parts of the population, and existing policy models can be used to design compensation measures that …
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high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be affected differently by climate mitigation policies that target … and compare results for poor and rich households. The analysis considers policy implications of these findings throughout …
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What do markets for voluntary climate protection imply about people's valuations of en- vironmental protection? I study …
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Many people remain opposed to climate change mitigation policies. This opposition is an obstacle to policy action and … salience of climate change-related issues, affect people's support for policies to reduce emissions. We additionally test … findings suggest that economically vulnerable groups can respond negatively to the promotion of climate change mitigation …
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, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … should be a part of the approach to combating global climate change …
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We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic …
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