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When Knowledge is Not Enough : Hiv/Aids Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana

Dinkelman, Taryn - 2006

increase vulnerability to infection? We use data from two recent household surveys in Botswana to address this question. We …

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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …

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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana

McMillan, Margaret - 2019

We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …

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Stuck in the Middle? Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Botswana

McCaig, Brian - 2015

This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by … that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

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A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods

Bayer, Patrick J. - 2011

This paper develops a dynamic model of neighborhood choice along with a computationally light multi-step estimator. The proposed empirical framework captures observed and unobserved preference heterogeneity across households and locations in a flexible way. The model is estimated using a newly...

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Risk and Return in Environmental Economics

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2012

I examine the risk/return tradeoff for environmental investments, and its implications for policy choice. Consider a policy to reduce carbon emissions. To what extent does the value of such a policy depend on the expected future damages from global warming versus uncertainty over those damages,...

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Bank Liquidity, Credit Supply, and the Environment

Levine, Ross - 2018

We evaluate the impact of the credit conditions facing corporations on their emissions of toxic air pollutants. Exploiting cross-county, cross-time shale discoveries that generated liquidity windfalls at local bank branches, we construct measures of (1) the degree to which banks in non-shale...

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Evolution of Assessments of the Economics of Global Warming : Changes in the Dice Model, 1992 – 2017

Nordhaus, William D. - 2017

Many areas of the natural and social sciences involve complex systems that link together multiple sectors. Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are approaches that integrate knowledge from two or more domains into a single framework, and these are particularly important for climate change. One of...

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Entice-Br : The Effects of Backstop Technology R&D on Climate Policy Models

Popp, David - 2021

Recent attempts to endogenize technology in climate policy models have produced mixed results. Models including alternative technologies find large gains from induced technological change. However, technological progress in these models comes through learning-by-doing, which ignores the...

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R&D Subsidies and Climate Policy : Is There a "Free Lunch"?

Popp, David - 2021

Because of the long-term nature of the climate problem, technological advances are often seen as an important component of any solution. However, when considering the potential for technology to help solve the climate problem, two market failures exist which lead to underinvestment in...

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