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Adjusting Household Structure : School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2004
human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262125
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Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2004
human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369221
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The productivity consequences of pollution-induced migration in China
Khanna, Gaurav; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - 2021
Migration and pollution are two defining features of China's impressive growth perfor- mance over the last 30 years. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648055
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The determinants of household saving in China: A dynamic panel analysis of provincial data
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Wan, Junmin - 2006
In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household saving rate in China using a … life cycle model and panel data on Chinese provinces for the 1995-2004 period from China's household survey. We find that … China's household saving rate has been high and rising and that the main determinants of variations over time and over space …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332228
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Inducing the international diffusion of carbon capture and storage technologies in the power sector
Vallentin, Daniel - 2007
Although CO2 capture and storage(CCS) technologies are heatedly debated, many politicians and energy producers consider them to be a possible technical option to mitigate carbon dioxide from large-point sources. Hence, both national and international decision-makers devote a growing amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299915
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Climate treaties and backstop technologies
Barrett, Scott - 2010
In this paper I examine the design of climate treaties when there exist two kinds of technology, a conventional abatement technology with (linearly) increasing marginal costs and a backstop technology ('air capture') with high but constant marginal costs. I focus on situations in which countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270551
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A stationary equilibrium model of green technology adoption with endogenous carbon price
Dammann, Felix; Ferrari, Giorgio - 2024
This paper proposes and analyzes a stationary equilibrium model for a competitive industry which endogenously determines the carbon price necessary to achieve a given emission target. In the model, firms are identified by their level of technology and make production, entry, and abatement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494914
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Umweltinformationen in Japan: Erfolge in der Luftreinhaltepolitik durch eine effiziente Meß- und Informationspraxis - "Umweltweißbuch"
Weidner, Helmut - In: Umweltmagazin: Forum für Umwelttechnik in Industrie … 14 (1985) 6, pp. 12-15
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