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Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests
Alix‐Garcia, Jennifer - 2014
the design of local and international policy instruments to prevent further deforestation and encourage forest growth …. This paper reviews the theory and evidence surrounding forest-related Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes intended …
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Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing : Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land
Bartels, Charlotte - 2020
What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible....
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Forced Off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Mu, Ren - 2017
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960251
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Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China
de la Rupelle, Maëlys - 2010
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...
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On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm : Evidence from Field Experiments
Shearer, Bruce S. - 2009
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157254
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The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets : Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon
Chimeli, Ariaster - 2011
Agents operating in illegal markets cannot resort to the justice system to guarantee property rights, to enforce contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous agreements and to fight for market share. This...
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Gift Exchange within a Firm : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2021
We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable to past planting...
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The Roots of Inequality : Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees and Forests
Brunori, Paolo; Hufe, Paul; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon - 2021
In this paper we propose the use of machine learning methods to estimate inequality of opportunity. We illustrate how our proposed methods—conditional inference regression trees and forests—represent a substantial improvement over existing estimation approaches. First, they reduce the risk...
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The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence : Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest
Naudé, Wim - 2022
in a Dark Forest universe; and (iii) the relevance of economics' Mythical Agent (homo economicus) for the design of value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241972
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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2011
,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … effect of political decentralization on these variables is more limited. The results show that citizens seem to be happier …
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