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Reciprocal Climate Negotiators
Nyborg, Karine - 2015
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 Prisoners' Dilemma, and countries are narrowly...
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Climate Change Salience, Economic Insecurity, and Support for Mitigation Policies
Johnston, David W.; Knott, Rachel; Mendolia, Silvia - 2022
Many people remain opposed to climate change mitigation policies. This opposition is an obstacle to policy action and, therefore, important to understand. We explore how unusually high temperatures (heat waves), which observably increase the salience of climate change-related issues, affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076714
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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 increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089970
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin : Is There a Role for Policy?
Doorley, Karina - 2014
in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050635
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043700
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046258
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How Much Language is Enough? Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany
DeVoretz, Don J.; Hinte, Holger; Werner, Christiane - 2021
Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge … of either of its official languages. Acquisition of a second language in Canada is voluntary and largely dependent on …
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022
, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in provincial … vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial … Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements …
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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
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