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The influence of the Common Agricultural Policy on agricultural landscapes
Lefebvre, Marianne; Espinosa, Maria; Gomez-y-Paloma, Sergio - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
. non-targeted measures which also have the potential to have an influence (positive or negative)). The olive and livestock … major driver of land use and farming practices change in Europe, it also affects landscapes. The report analyzes how the CAP … design and implementation have influenced the agricultural landscapes. It provides a catalogue of CAP measures that have been …
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Towards More Sustainable Food Systems
Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid (contributor) - 2023
Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and...
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Il "secondo pilastro" della PAC nel ciclo di programmazione 2000 - 2006 : l' efficacia sull' occupazione in agricoltura per il caso dei comuni della Sardegna
Etzo, Ivan; Mandarino, Antonella; Mattana, Paolo - In: Politica economica : rivista di studi e ricerche per la … 29 (2013) 3, pp. 319-351
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Place-based policies and the location of economic activity : evidence from the Italian strategy for inner areas
Monturano, Gianluca; Resce, Giuliano; Ventura, Marco - 2022
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Do pilot and demonstration projects work?
Blackburn, Christopher J.; Flowers, Mallory E.; … - 2018
Pilot and demonstration (P&D) projects are commonly deployed to catalyze early adoption of technology, but are poorly understood in terms of mechanism and impact. We conceptually distinguish unique functions of pilots and demonstrations, then examine whether they accelerate green building...
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Distributional impact analysis : toolkit and illustrations of impacts beyond the average treatment effect
Bedoya, Guadalupe; Bittarello, Luca; Davis, Jonathan; … - 2018
Program evaluations often focus on average treatment effects. However, average treatment effects miss important aspects of policy evaluation, such as the impact on inequality and whether treatment harms some individuals. A growing literature develops methods to evaluate such issues by examining...
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The Effect of Tuition Fees on Student Enrollment and Location Choice – Interregional Migration, Border Effects and Gender Differences
Alecke, Björn; Burgard, Claudia; Mitze, Timo - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of tuition fees on the university enrollment and location decision of high school graduates in Germany. After a Federal Constitutional Court decision in 2005, 7 out of 16 German federal states introduced tuition fees for higher education. In the empirical...
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Social experiments and instrumental variables with duration outcomes
Abbring, Jaap; van den Berg, Gerard - 2005
This paper examines the empirical analysis of treatment effects on duration outcomes from data that contain instrumental variation. We focus on social experiments in which an intention to treat is randomized and compliance may be imperfect. We distinguish between cases where the treatment starts...
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Fixing the leak: unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany
Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009
From 2002-2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...
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Elicting public support for greening the electricity mix using random parameter techniques
Grösche, Peter; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
With its commitment to double the share of renewables in electricity generation to at least 30% by 2020, the German government has embarked on a costly policy course whose public support remains an open empirical question. Building on ample household survey data, we trace peoples'...
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