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Estimating the economic opportunity cost of capital for public investment projects : an empirical analysis of the Mexican case
Coppola, Andrea; Fernholz, Fernando; Glenday, Graham - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260133
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On SARS type economic effects during infectious disease outbreaks
Brahmbhatt, Milan (contributor); Dutta, Arindam (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003626184
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Evaluating public expenditures when governments must rely on distortionary taxation
Anderson, James E.; Martin, Will - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000995130
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The seasonality of conflict
Guardado, Jenny; Pennings, Steven - 2020
This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper provides a new test of this "opportunity cost mechanism" using one of the largest shocks to labor demand in agricultural societies: harvest. Theoretically, the paper shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297223
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Mauritania : counting on natural wealth for a sustainable future
Mele, Gianluca - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378929
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Testing genuine saving
Hamilton, Kirk - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002925654
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Sustaining economic welfare : estimating changes in per capita wealth
Hamilton, Kirk - 2000
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Paying attention to profitable investments : experimental evidence from renewable energy markets
Coville, Aidan; Orozco-Olvera, Victor H.; Reichert, Arndt R. - 2019
This paper provides an explanation for why many information campaigns fail to affect decision-making. The authors experimentally show that a large information intervention about a profitable and climate-friendly household investment had limited effects if it only provided generic data. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114417
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Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling
Hou, Xiaohui - 2009
"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time …-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth … enrollment for rural girls from 1998 to 2006. This increase is independent of wealth (measured by per capita expenditure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003820982
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Comprehensive wealth, intangible capital, and development
Ferreira, Susana; Hamilton, Kirk - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665574