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Artisanal fishers’ ethnobotany: from plant diversity use to agrobiodiversity management
Peroni, Nivaldo; Begossi, Alpina; Hanazaki, Natalia - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 10 (2008) 5, pp. 623-637
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‘Beyond the Lens of Peasantry’: Theoretical Basis of ‘Fishantry’ as a Distinct Social Domain (Part 1)
Deb, Apurba Krishna; Haque, C. Emdad - In: International Journal of Social Science Research 2 (2014) 1, pp. 77-101
Historically, fishers have been embodied among rural primary producers, and they have been largely overlooked in … up the challenge to analyze the theoretical basis and argues in favour of why fishers do deserve a separate analytical … treatment. We observed that, despite some commonalities, interactions, and dependencies between fishers and peasants as rural …
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Ostracism and Common Pool Resource Management in a Developing Country: Young Fishers in the Laboratory
Akpalu, Wisdom; Martin, Peter - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2009
were young fishers in Ghana. We find that the introduction of the possibility to ostracise other members of a group at a …
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Fourth Fisheries Project In Bangladesh an Integrated Project Analysis
Jenkins, Glenn Paul; Jayawardena, Migara S.; … - Economics Department, Queen's University
The Fourth Fisheries project in Bangladesh has been developed as part of the comprehensive fisheries policy implemented by the Government of Bangladesh. The project hopes to generate economic benefits while being financially sustainable. The fishermen stand to gain considerably as they can reap...
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COVID-19 and Climate-Smart Health Care : Health Sector Opportunities for a Synergistic Response to the COVID-19 and Climate Crises
World Bank
The emergence of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought with it a sharp focus on public health …
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Lives versus Livelihoods during the COVID-19 Pandemic : How Testing Softens the Trade-off
Islamaj, Ergys; Le, Duong Trung; Mattoo, Aaditya
The early COVID-19 pandemic literature focused on the conflict between lives and livelihoods. But cross-country evidence reveals that across countries high mortality rates were often associated with large gross domestic product contractions. This paper shows that the presumed trade-off was...
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Time is on my side: optimism in intertemporal choice
Berndsen, M.; Pligt, J. van der - 2001
The present research, using data from 163 undergraduates, examines the role of optimism on time preferences for both losses and gains. It is argued that optimism has asymmetric effects on time preferences for gains versus losses: one reason why decision makers prefer immediate gains is because...
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Dynamic Experiments for Estimating Preferences: An Adaptive Method of Eliciting Time and Risk Parameters
Toubia, Olivier; Johnson, Eric; Evgeniou, Theodoros; … - In: Management Science 59 (2013) 3, pp. 613-640
We present a method that dynamically designs elicitation questions for estimating risk and time preference parameters. Typically these parameters are elicited by presenting decision makers with a series of static choices between alternatives, gambles, or delayed payments. The proposed method...
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Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior
Akerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals discount future events when balancing the immediate utility...
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Can Self-Control Explain Avoiding Free Money? Evidence from Interest-Free Student Loans
Cadena, Brian C.; Keys, Benjamin J. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1117-1129
This paper uses insights from behavioral economics to explain a particularly surprising borrowing phenomenon: one in six undergraduate students offered interest-free loans turns them down. Models of impulse control predict that students may optimally reject subsidized loans to avoid excessive...
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