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Chapter 1. Impacts and Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income Countries

Dupas, P.; Miguel, E. - 2017

Improved health in low-income countries could considerably improve wellbeing and possibly promote economic growth. The last decade has seen a surge in field experiments designed to understand the barriers that households and governments face in investing in health and how these barriers can be...

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A Second-Best Analysis of Environmental Subsidies

Parry, Ian - In: International Tax and Public Finance 5 (1998) 2, pp. 153-170

This paper examines the complications posed by pre-existing tax distortions in the economy, for the evaluation of a variety of subsidy policies that affect the environment. These complications include not only the efficiency cost of financing the subsidy by distortionary taxation, but also the...

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Child Care in the Welfare State A critique of the Rosen model

Aslaksen, Iulie; Koren, Charlotte - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2000

A recent study of the welfare state in Sweden, Rosen (1995, 1996, 1997), concludes that child care subsidies may lead … extend Rosen's model, we analyze the case of positive externalities associated with child quality. The positive externality … provides a rationale for child care subsidies, as expected, and also influences the optimal income tax rate. …

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The Perverse Effects of Biofuel Public-Sector Policies

Gorter, Harry de; Drabik, Dusan; Just, David R. - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 463-483

mandates, subsidies, import barriers, binary sustainability standards, and indirect land use measures, we identify many … hence the food-fuel trade-off, the contradictory effects of combining mandates with different subsidies, the various …

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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation Under Uncertainty

Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 60 (2015) 1, pp. 17-35

We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of uncertainty about subsequent abatement cost, but can subsequently adjust output in the light of true marginal abatement cost. Where an emissions tax is the only available instrument,...

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Optimal Growth when Tastes are Inherited

De La Croix, D.; Michel, P. - Association of Southern European Economic Theorists - ASSET - 1997

We address the issue of optimal growth when standard-of-living aspirations are transmitted from one generation to the next. We derive the condition for the optimal solution to be stable in the saddle-point sense and show that this optimal solutionmay display damped oscillations even when the...

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Labour supply, welfare and the earnings distribution

Creedy, John - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 4, 3, pp. 134-151

This paper examines the generation of earnings distributions using a labour supply framework in which individuals face piecewise-linear budget constraints. The possible implications for the distribution of earnings within a population consisting of single individuals having a joint distribution...

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Real Options: Applications in Public Economics

Lawrence, Craig; Thomas, Mathew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper illustrates the use of real options principles to value prototypical resource and industryinvestment projects. It captures important competitive/strategic dimensions in a step-by-stepanalysis of investment decisions (options) under uncertainty. It compares and contrasts...

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Subsidizing the spread of Covid19 : evidence from the UK's eat-out-to-help-out scheme

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2020

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Location of unwanted facilities in Prague : NIMBY in public administration hierarchy

Dlouhý, Martin; Hudeček, Tomáš - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 26 (2017) 2, pp. 240-252

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