Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …

channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a vital role in driving effective climate change mitigation and … document the existing evidence on the impacts of climate change damages, and the effects of climate change mitigation and … of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also …

, while the situation reverses afterwards. Over the century, the risk premium correction fosters more mitigation, which … uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). Uncertainty is transformed into a risk-premium, damage-correction, region …. This risk premium quantifies what society would be willing to pay to insure against the uncertainty of the damages, and it …

productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …

positively skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient of variation of about 0.3, comparable …The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess the variance in the rate of return by surveying …

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … demonstrated that a key feature of human capital investments is whether they increase or decrease wage risk. In a benchmark model … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …

skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess thevariance in the rate of return by surveying …