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Can Training Enhance Adoption, Knowledge and Perception of Organic Farming Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia

Grimm, Michael - 2020

In many parts of the world, several decades of intensively applying Green Revolution technologies came at environmental costs, i.e. degraded water and soil quality as well as a loss of biodiversity. This has led to an increased interest in alternative farming systems such as organic farming,...

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Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption

Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023

The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...

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Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation

de Hoop, Jacobus - 2017

Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....

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Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World

Geruso, Michael - 2018

We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries by extracting birth histories from household surveys. Studying 53 developing countries that span five continents, we find...

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Environmental Disasters and Migration

Mbaye, Linguère - 2015

This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...

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The Impact of Changing Climate on Children's Nutritional Status in Bangladesh

Hanifi, Syed Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; Quisumbing, … - 2022

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the...

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To What Do People Contribute? Ongoing Operations vs. Sustainable Supplies

Arbel, Yuval - 2019

We study how the objective of the contributions affects the willingness to contribute to real-life public goods. We conducted three treatments of a fundraising experiment among religious Jewish students in which the contributions were assigned to finance sustainable supplies and the ongoing...

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther - 2014

This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …

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Who is Your Perfect Match? Educational Norms, Educational Mismatch and Firm Profitability

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2016

findings show an 'inverted L' profitability profile: undereducation is associated with lower profits, whereas higher levels of …

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