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Instrumental variables : a cautionary tale

Heckman, James J. - 1995

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The social cost of carbon with intragenerational inequality under economic uncertainty

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, … - 2022

A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...

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The economic approach to personality, character and virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - 2023

This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...

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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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Three criteria for evaluating social programs

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022

This paper examines the economic foundations of three criteria used for evaluating the costs and benefits of social programs. Some criteria do not consider the scale of programs or address the costs associated with programs that expand or contract the total government budget. A recent addition...

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Intergenerational transmission of family influence

Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, … - 2022

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The role of corporate citizens in fighting poverty : an ordonomic approach to global justice

Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan - 2008

Drawing on an ordonomic approach, this paper argues that a theory of global justice should incorporate as a pivotal … cornerstone a theory of corporate citizenship which constructively addresses business firms as agents of social value creation. We … argue that, instead of relying exclusively on arguments of obligation, a theory of global justice should primarily formulate …

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