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Disuguaglianza e crescita: Una analisi empirica applicata all'esperienza recente delle regioni italiane
Bianchi, Carluccio; Menegatti, Mario - 2005
Il lavoro esamina la relazione fra disuguaglianza e crescita nelle regioni italiane nel periodo 1990-2003. I risultati … disuguaglianza nella distribuzione personale dei redditi riduce la crescita reale. L’esame dei diversi possibili meccanismi di … influenza della disuguaglianza sulla crescita, inoltre, evidenzia come tanto il canale connesso all’instabilità sociale quanto …
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Can Reminders Promote Regular Pro-Environmental Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Peru
Fuhrmann-Riebel, Hanna; D'Exelle, Ben; López Vargas, … - 2024
Tackling environmental pollution requires a permanent change in regular, repeated behavior of households. Bringing about change in such behavior may require interventions that are not limited to a single point in time, yet little evidence exists on how frequently we need to target households to...
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Using information provision and interactive risk maps to motivate testing for radon
Timmons, Shane; Lunn, Pete - 2022
Radon exposure in homes is a leading cause of lung cancer, but the rate at which householders test for it is low. In a pre-registered experiment with a nationally representative sample of adults (N = 1,700), we used psychological theory to design interventions to increase perceived risk from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427652
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Forecasts: Consumption, Production, and Behavioral Responses
Ahmad, Husnain F.; Gibson, Matthew; Nadeem, Fatiq; … - 2022
Scarce information and human capital may make it difficult for residents of developing countries to produce accurate forecasts, limiting responses to uncertain future events like air pollution. We study two randomized interventions in Lahore, Pakistan: 1) provision of air pollution forecasts; 2)...
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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting
Winkler, Ralph - 2006
In this paper, we extend the well known result that hyperbolically discounting agents tend to postpone costs into the future. In a simple model we show that, without commitment to the ex ante optimal plan, no investment in environmental protection is undertaken over the whole time horizon, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753124
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A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption
Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Somanathan, E. - 2020
Air pollution is amongst the gravest public health concerns worldwide, and indoor sources are the largest contributors in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign villages to a campaign by rural public health workers to either raise awareness about the adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497868
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Now or never : environmental protection under hyperbolic discounting
Winkler, Ralph - 2006
In this paper, we extend the well known result that hyperbolically discounting agents tend to postpone costs into the future. In a simple model we show that, without commitment to the ex ante optimal plan, no investment in environmental protection is undertaken over the whole time horizon, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003459204
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Estimating Discount Factors within a Random Utility Theoretic Framework
Meyer, Andrew - 2008
Choices involving tradeoffs of benefits and costs over time are pervasive in our everyday lives. The observation of declining discount rates in experimental settings has led many to promote hyperbolic discounting over standard exponential discounting as the preferred descriptive model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722739
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Using information provision and interactive risk maps to motivate testing for radon
Timmons, Shane; Lunn, Pete - 2022
Radon exposure in homes is a leading cause of lung cancer, but the rate at which householders test for it is low. In a pre-registered experiment with a nationally representative sample of adults (N = 1,700), we used psychological theory to design interventions to increase perceived risk from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040633
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A Breath of Fresh Air : Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption
Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Somanathan, Eswaran - 2021
Air pollution is amongst the gravest public health concerns worldwide, and indoor sources are the largest contributors in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign villages to a campaign by rural public health workers to either raise awareness about the adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314738