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Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
Deschenes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931762
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Spouses' Access to Financial Services: Estimating Technological and Managerial Gaps in Production
Malabayabas, Maria Luz L.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Mayorga, … - 2023
-help groups can increase farm productivity, and extension agents should also focus on spouses and their role in farming decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469487
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Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?
Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022
Are 'green' environmental concerns -- about climate change, biodiversity, pollution -- deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470383
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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
productivity in enterprises operated by young owners. Using the World Bank's recent LSMS-ISA database that covers six countries in … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435239
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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Jimi, Nusrat Abedin; Nikolov, Plamen; Malek, Mohammad Abdul - 2019
Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141151
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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
productivity in enterprises operated by young owners. Using the World Bank's recent LSMS-ISA database that covers six countries in … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959849
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Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - 2008
more likely than other owners to invest in productivity enhancing projects and to vertically integrate firms to capture the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268738
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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael P. - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307317
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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352244
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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584695