Search Results - economics

2022

This paper studies the causal effect of providing information about climate change on individuals' willingness to pay to offset carbon emissions in a randomized control trial. Receiving truthful information about ways to reduce CO2 emissions increases individuals' willingness to pay for CO2...

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Networks in Population Economics: production and collaborations

Molina, José Alberto; Iñíguez, David; Ruiz, Gonzalo; … - 2022

Population Economics (PopEc) covers a number of topics in Economics, as well as in Demography, Labor Studies, Sociology … (Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Feminist Economics, the Review of Economics of the Household, the … Journal of Demographic Economics, Demography, Population and Development Review, and the European Journal of Population …

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Technology and productivity: A critique of aggregate indicators

Block, Fred L. - 2022

Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which economies are utilizing advances in technology. However, this measure is problematic on several different dimensions. First, the idea that it is possible to separate out the relative...

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A unifying framework for submodular mean field games

Dianetti, Jodi; Ferrari, Giorgio; Fischer, Markus; … - 2022

We provide an abstract framework for submodular mean field games and identify verifiable sufficient conditions that allow to prove existence and approximation of strong mean field equilibria in models where data may not be continuous with respect to the measure parameter and common noise is...

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How to foster climate innovation in the European Union: Insights from the EIB Online Survey on Climate Innovation

Delanote, Julie; Rückert, Désirée - 2022

Using survey data on climate innovation, we map climate innovation patterns across different regions and technologies, and study the cooperation, protection and reach of climate innovation. Our analysis confirms that there is a strong link between climate innovation and firm performance. We...

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Impatience to Consume and Population Growth in a Simple Agrarian Economy

Amundsen, Eirik S.; Skonhoft, Anders - 2022

This paper studies the relationship between population size and the rate of time preference (RTP) in pre-capitalist subsistence agricultural communities. The RTP is reflected in the community's propensity to invest in and maintain new arable land that may be considered as an inherent...

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Evaluierung des Potenzials von Virtual Intermodality an Flughäfen am Beispiel des Flughafen BER – eine Entwicklung konkreter Handlungsansätze

Hotes, Andreas G.; Mohrmann, Johannes; Gottschalk, Ezra … - 2022

Dieser wissenschaftliche Beitrag untersucht das Potenzial von Virtual Intermodality an Flughäfen im Kontext aktueller luftfahrtbezogener Herausforderungen. Auf Grundlage einer multiplen Fallstudienanalyse sowie Untersuchungen zur Catchment-Area werden im Ergebnis konkrete Handlungsansätze zur...

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Whom to ask? Testing respondent effects in household surveys

Fiala, Nathan; Masselus, Lise - 2022

The common practice in household questionnaires of surveying the most knowledgeable household member can lead to inaccurate data if they have limited information. Using survey experiments in Paraguay and Uganda, we investigate whether there are discrepancies in intra-household reporting on...

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Do economists replicate?

Fiala, Nathan; Neubauer, Florian; Peters, Jörg - 2022

economics increasingly require authors to provide data and code alongside published papers, but how much does the economics … economics journals to show that policing replications are rare and conclude that more incentives to replicate are needed to reap …

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Immigrating into a recession: Evidence from family migrants to the U.S.

Barsbai, Toman; Steinmayr, Andreas; Winter, Christoph - 2022

We analyze how economic conditions at the time of arrival affect the economic integration of family-sponsored migrants in the U.S. Our identification strategy exploits long waiting times for family-sponsored immigration visas that decouple the migration decision from economic conditions at the...

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