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Mental Health Literacy, Beliefs and Demand for Mental Health Support among University Students

Acampora, Michelle; Capozza, Francesco; Moghani, Vahid - 2022

literacy intervention provides information on the benefits of care-seeking and its potential returns in terms of academic … information increases (decreases) the demand for information about coaching (psychological) services. We document that this …

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Adaptation for Mitigation

Ikefuji, Masako; Magnus, Jan; Sakamoto, Hiroaki - 2014

This paper develops a dynamic model consisting of two regions (North and South), in which the accumulation of human capital is negatively influenced by the global stock of pollution. By characterizing the equilibrium strategy of each region, we show that the regions' best responses can be...

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Optimal Learning on Climate Change : Why Climate Skeptics Should Reduce Emissions

van Wijnbergen, Sweder; Willems, Tim - 2012

Climate skeptics argue that the possibility that global warming is exogenous implies that we should not take additional action towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions until we know more. However this paper shows that even climate skeptics have an incentive to reduce emissions: such a change of...

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Do Elections lead to Informed Public Decisions?

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2003

political process and the production of policy relevant information; on the role played by probing into candidates' past; and on …

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Left Behind Voters, Anti-Elitism and Popular Will

Crutzen, Benoit; Sisak, Dana; Swank, Otto - 2020

Two common characteristics of populism are anti-elitism and favoring popular will over expertise. The recent successes of populists are often attributed to the common people, the majority of voters, being left behind by mainstream parties. This paper shows that the two characteristics of...

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Reputation Shocks and Strategic Responses in Electoral Campaigns

Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021

Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to … the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both … incumbent and challenger increase their campaign spending when detrimental information affects the incumbent's reputation …

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The Gasoline Climate Trap

Delfgaauw, Josse; Swank, Otto - 2023

Due to taxes and subsidies, gasoline prices vary dramatically across countries. Externalities cannot fully account for this. We develop a simple political-economic model that shows that group interests, resulting from the composition of a country's car fleet, help to explain differences in...

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Limit Pricing, Climate Policies, and Imperfect Substitution

van der Meijden, Gerard; Withagen, Cees - 2016

The effects of climate policies are often studied under the assumption of perfectly competitive markets for fossil fuels. In this paper, we allow for monopolistic fossil fuel supply. We show that, if fossil and renewable energy sources are perfect substitutes, a phase will exist during which the...

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Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?

Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Prottung, Paul; Ricci, Benedetta - 2023

In many public policy areas, randomized policy experiments can greatly contribute to our knowledge of the effects of policies and can thus help to improve public policy. However, policy experiments are not very common. This paper studies whether a lack of appreciation of policy experiments among...

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Tradable permits to manage urban mobility: market design and experimental implementation

Brands, Devi; Verhoef, Erik T.; Knockaert, Jasper; … - 2019

Congestion levels have grown substantially in recent years, while the traditional economic response to congestion – road pricing – remains politically infeasible in most locations. Tradable permits are likely to be a more viable alternative, because they do not require a net financial flow...

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