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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity

McDermott, Grant R. - 2013

Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of … scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and … of river water. An implication is that future climate change will affect electricity prices not only through changes in …

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(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

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The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics

Amodio, Francesco - 2020

. Second, individuals from connected ethnicities are more likely to be employed in agriculture, and in those countries where …

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Borderline Disorder : (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...

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Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations

Dias, Mateus - 2019

This paper assesses the impact of glyphosate use in agriculture on birth outcomes of human populations in surrounding … productivity from adoption of genetically modified soybeans and look at externalities across municipalities sharing the same water … externality effects of glyphosate use on populations distant from the original locations of use, but receiving water from these …

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Forced Off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China

Mu, Ren - 2017

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...

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Water Tariffs and Consumers' Inaction

Ornaghi, Carmine - 2018

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

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The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic : Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups

Aubert, Cecile; Dang, Hai-Anh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two papers and their theoretical and empirical results....

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A Salience Theory of Choice Errors

Manzini, Paola - 2010

We study a psychologically based foundation for choice errors. The decision maker applies a preference ranking after forming a 'consideration set' prior to choosing an alternative. Membership of the consideration set is determined both by the alternative specific salience and by the rationality...

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Stochastic Choice and Consideration Sets

Manzini, Paola - 2012

We model a boundedly rational agent who suffers from limited attention. The agent considers each feasible alternative with a given (unobservable) probability, the attention parameter, and then chooses the alternative that maximises a preference relation within the set of considered alternatives....

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