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Ornaghi, Carmine - 2018

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity

McDermott, Grant R. - 2013

Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of … scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and … of river water. An implication is that future climate change will affect electricity prices not only through changes in …

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the economic profession, most notably, Barro, 2004 to...

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Family Social Norms and Child Labor

Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2022

Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...

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Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values

Badaoui, Eliane - 2018

This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The focus is on the causal role of ethnic inherited cultural values and behaviours in perpetuating fostering. In particular, at the ethnic group level, we rely on the inherited...

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Institutions, Culture, and Wetland Values

Mayula Chaikumbung - 2018

Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We assess three dimensions of institutional quality: economic...

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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Heineck, Guido - 2010

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...

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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence : A Large-Scale Experiment

Sutter, Matthias - 2010

Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...

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Joblessness and Perceptions About the Effectiveness of Democracy

Altindag, Duha Tore - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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Family Values, Social Needs and Preferences for Welfare

Lucifora, Claudio - 2012

This paper investigates the links between family values, social needs and individual preferences for welfare using data from the 2005 French “Generation and Gender Survey” (GGS). We analyse individual preferences, for financial assistance and the provision of care services, with respect to...

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