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This paper uses a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rules of the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance, the composition of students in schools, and school observable inputs. We find that test score disclosure...
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The carbon sequestration potential of an unmanaged and previously unstudied Guadua angustifolia bamboo forest in the Carrasco National Park of Bolivia has been studied, by estimating the total aboveground biomass contained in the forest. It was found that the aboveground biomass consisting of...
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This paper discusses global public goods related to the world';s land resources, their current provision and likely future provision, their potential impacts on the world's poorest households, as well as prospects for using foreign assistance to enhance these outcomes. Specifically, the paper...
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The carbon mitigation literature has separately considered using forests to store carbon and as a source of bioenergy … program starts, natural forestland shrinks as more forests become managed for higher yields. …
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We study the potential of tropical multi-age multi-species forests for sequestering carbon in response to financial …
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With the long term goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C and "to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C", the Paris Agreement puts renewed attention on the portfolio of technologies needed to achieve consistent emission reductions...
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individual willingness to pay (WTP) for carbon sequestration through forests. Our particular focus is on the role of local co …
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