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The assessment of climate risk impact on the economy: A panel data approach
Barbu, Teodora Cristina; Cepoi, Cosmin-Octavian; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 24 (2022) 61, pp. 597-612
In this paper, we investigate how climate risk impacts the sovereign risk, the stock market evolution, and the degree of competitiveness, starting from the macroeconomic and financial effects globally produced by climate change. Using both quantile and logistic regression and a sample of 22...
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Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel
Binam, Joachim N.; Place, Frank; Djalal, Arinloye A.; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 5 (2017) 2, pp. 1-28
The present study aims at (1) assessing how the existing local formal and informal institutions affect farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) practices and, (2) evaluating the benefits of such practices on livelihoods. The propensity score with continuous treatments was used to assess the...
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Promoting agroforestry in Rwanda: The effects of policy interventions derived from the theory of planned behaviour
Noeldeke, Beatrice - 2022
Although agroforestry offers multiple benefits, its adoption by small-scale farmers remains low in some regions in … farmers' intrinsic drivers to adopt agroforestry based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Furthermore, it compares policy … instruments which address the intrinsic drivers to promote agroforestry adoption. Specifically, an agent-based simulation model …
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Processes Underlying 50 Years of Local Forest-Cover Change in Yunnan, China
Frayer, Jens; Müller, Daniel; Sun, Zhanli; Munroe, Darla K. - In: Forests 5 (2014) 12, pp. 3257-3273
Recognition of the importance of forests for local livelihoods, biodiversity and the climate system has spurred a growing interest in understanding the factors that drive forest-cover change. Forest transitions, the change from net deforestation to net reforestation, may follow different...
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Abatement and Transaction Costs of Carbon-Sink Projects Involving Smallholders
Cacho, Oscar; Lipper, Leslie - 2007
Agroforestry projects have the potential to help mitigate global warming by acting as sinks for greenhouse gasses …
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The informal sector wage gap: New evidence using quantile estimations on panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
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Is informality bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292906
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Job search channels, neighborhood effects and wages inequality in developing countries: The Colombian case
García, Gustavo; Nicodemo, Catia - 2013
This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The geographic closeness is associated to social interactions. Individuals who are in physical and social...
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Semiparametric Estimation of a Sample Selection Model in the Presence of Endogeneity
Schwiebert, Jörg - 2012
In this paper, we derive a semiparametric estimation procedure for the sample selection model when some covariates are endogenous. Our approach is to augment the main equation of interest with a control function which accounts for sample selectivity as well as endogeneity of covariates. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294432
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Export Intensity and Plant Characteristics: What Can We Learn from Quantile Regression?
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
Using quantile regression and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants this paper documents that the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export/sales ratio.
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