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Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2011
responsibility (CSR) in order to offset corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). We find general support for the causal relationship … CSR, we find evidence of heterogeneity among industries, where the effect is stronger in industries where CSI tends to be … CSR and CSI. Within the categories of community relations, environment, and human rights--arguably among those dimensions …
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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented : A Reexamination of the Evidence from the Highscope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J. - 2010
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138949
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The Sputtering Labor Force of the 21st Century. Can Social Policy Help?
Ellwood, David T. - 2021
This paper examines two questions: how will the labor force change over the next 20 years, and can social policy significantly alter its size and shape. In the last twenty years, the overall labor force grew by 35 percent and the so-called prime age workforce those aged 25-54 grew by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211640
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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019
The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean's interest list, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862054
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Water Markets : Australia's Murray-Darling Basin and the Us Southwest
Grafton, Quentin - 2014
Fresh water supplies increasingly are under stress in many parts of the world due to rising populations, higher per capita incomes and corresponding consumption, greater environmental concerns, and the effects of climate change. Water rights and markets are part of the institutional menus for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065560
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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
Grafton, Quentin - 2014
the three 'pillars' of integrated water resource management: economic efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069511
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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions
Ashraf, Nava - 2016
Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are often unwilling to pay for the costs of that piping....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000522
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Toilets Can Work : Short and Medium Run Health Impacts of Addressing Complementarities and Externalities in Water and Sanitation
Duflo, Esther - 2015
Poor water quality and sanitation are leading causes of mortality and disease in developing countries. However, interventions providing toilets in rural areas have not substantially improved health, likely because of incomplete coverage and low usage. This paper estimates the impact of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016018
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Who Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from England and Wales
Beach, Brian - 2016
Nearly 40% of England's privately built waterworks were municipalised in the late 19th century. We examine how this affected public health by pairing annual mortality data for over 600 registration districts, spanning 1869 to 1910, with detailed waterworks information. Identification is aided by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984124
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Designing Nonlinear Price Schedules for Urban Water Utilities to Balance Revenue and Conservation Goals
Wolak, Frank - 2016
This paper formulates and estimates a household-level, billing-cycle water demand model under increasing block prices that accounts for the impact of monthly weather variation, the amount of vegetation on the household's property, and customer-level heterogeneity in demand due to household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985203