This study investigates the effect of environmental concerns, environmental knowledge, and environmental beliefs on household willingness to consume and purchase green products (clean cooking fuels) and also the mediating effect of environmental beliefs on the relationship between environmental...

In this paper, we examine the question of how trade drives educational attainment in a cross-country panel setting. If a country experience a positive demand shock for exports or a negative supply shock for imports that is intensive in educated labor, the demand for education is expected to...

Judge IV designs rely on monotonicity—each judge being weakly stricter than more lenient judges in all cases. I directly measure monotonicity in judicial panels in four different settings and find that it is violated in up to fifty percent of cases. The monotonicity violations are not detected...

This article investigates a bracketing property that purports to yield upper- and lower bounds on the treatment effects obtained from a fixed effects- and lagged dependent variable model. With reference to both analytical results and a Monte Carlo simulation, we explore the conditions under...

We have investigated the influence of fiscal instruments, notably taxes on income and government spending, on household consumption in two different samples and two measures of household debt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the topic. We used dynamic panel models and the GMM approach for...

The need to address current and future energy needs along with economic growth has raised concerns about the causal relationship between the use of energy and economic growth worldwide. Our study aims to contribute to the current debates on the existence, direction and impact of the causal...