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Human capital, resource constraints and intergenerational fairness

Valente, Simone - 2007

This paper studies an endogenous growth model with human capital, exhaustible resources, and overlapping generations. Under laissez-faire, higher study time reduces depletion rates by increasing the share of re- sources that present generations are willing to sell to successors. However, selfish...

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Intergenerational transfers, lifetime welfare and resource preservation

Valente, Simone - 2006

This paper analyzes overlapping-generations models where natural capital is owned by selfish agents. Transfers in favor of young agents reduce the rate of depletion and increase output growth. It is shown that intergenerational transfers may be preferred to laissez-faire by an indefinite...

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Current issues in natural resource and environmental economics

Halkos, George E. (ed.) - 2023

The interrelationship between economic growth, efficient use of natural resources, and sustainability has been of great … interest to economists, researchers and policy makers. Knowledge of actual causality direction between sustainability … problems demand urgent attention and planning of adequate policies towards sustainability. Development of new economic and …

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Aging, private health expenditures and environment quality

Safi, Fatma - 2016

This paper presents a simple two-period overlapping generation's model with uncertain lifetimes that contains environmental and health issues. It investigates an intergenerational conflict between old and young generations as regards two defensive expenditures, offsetting the influence of a...

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External habits formation and the environment

Safi, Fatma - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 67 (2021) 1, pp. 1-12

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Intergenerational Transfers, Lifetime Welfare and Resource Preservation

Valente, Simone - 2007

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Inequality and Outside Options in Common-Property Resource Use

Tarui, Nori - 2007

Using a dynamic intergenerational game, this paper analyzes the effects of inequality among resource users and their access to outside markets and credit on cooperative use of a local commons. The study finds that, depending on the agents' harvest sharing rule, the conditions under which...

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A Model of Public Education, Environmental Awareness and Environmental Quality– an Overlapping Generations Approach

Safi, Fatma - 2023

This paper investigated, in an overlapping generations model highlighting two-period lived households, the influence of education and environmental awareness on physical capital and environmental terms by sketching, at the stable steady state equilibrium, the comparative static examination....

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The environmental Kuznets Curve and flow versus stock pollution - the neglect of future damages

Lieb, Christoph Martin - 2002

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Status, Environmental Externality and Optimal Tax Programs

Wendner, Ronald - 2005

This paper studies the designs of optimal tax programs in OLG economies when first, consumption of one household lowers (status) utility of others, and second, consumption harms the environment. Status seeking raises optimal consumption tax rates, and lowers optimal tax rates on capital income

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