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Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015? The Case for a Pro-Poor Growth Strategy
(2005)This study uses simulations to explore the possibility of halving the percentage of people living in extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. A pro-poor growth-scenario and a constant-inequality scenario are compared. It is shown ... -
Can Aid Generate Growth in Africa?
(1998)The paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Africa. After brief discussion about growth determinants it goes on to review the available evidence about the impact of aid on African economic growth. ... -
Can China’s Growth be Sustained? A Productivity Perspective
(2006)China’s unorthodox approach to economic transition has resulted in sustained high growth. However, in recent years Chinese economists have increasingly referred to the growth pattern as “extensive”, generated mainly through ... -
Can Japan Make a Comeback?
(2004)Since the beginning of the 1990s Japan has experienced economic stagnation. This paper discusses its causes and the prospects for recovery. It considers both the macroeconomic problems and the viability of the Japanese ... -
Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of elephants
(2009-11-19)If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a burden, then they cannot be trusted to be its stewards. To assess their valuation of it, a CVM study was conducted for one CAMPFIRE district in Zimbabwe. ... -
Can Stated Preference Methods Accurately Predict Responses to Environmental Policies? The Case of a Plastic Bag Regulation in China
(2010-05-06)This study investigates the validity of using stated preference (SP) estimates to predict policy effects on plastic bag consumption. Before implementation of a plastic bag regulation, when bags were still free of charge, ... -
Can Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of REDD+ Improve Forest Governance?
(2011-04)The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has recently proposed the application of strategic environmental social assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the preparation of REDD+ ... -
Can Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of REDD+ Improve Forest Governance?
(2011-04)The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has recently proposed the application of strategic environmental social assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the preparation of REDD+ ... -
Can teaching children about the environment influence household behavior? Experiments in Swedish schools
(2024-10-30)In two separate field experiments with Swedish school children aged 10-16, we evaluate variants of an Environmental Education Program (EEP) designed to reduce household waste. We match the addresses of participating students ... -
Can the environment be an inferior good? A theory with context-dependent substitutability and needs
(2019-04)Theoretical models often assume the environment to be a normal good, irrespective of one’s income. However, a priori, nothing prohibits an environmental good from being normal for some individuals and inferior for others. ... -
Can we do policy recommendations from a framed field experiment? The case of coca cultivation in Colombia
(2008-05-27)Laboratory experiments are potentially effective tools for studying behavior in settings where little or no information would otherwise exist such as participation in illicit activities. However, using laboratory experiments ... -
CAPABILITY, HEALTH, AND THE LABOUR MARKET – THE RETIREMENT DECISION
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-09)The time of retirement is analyzed in a theoretical framework taking capability and health into account. Capability if formalized as a stock characteristic which determines the attained amounts of a composite good which ... -
Carbon Pricing: Transaction Costs of Emissions Trading vs. Carbon Taxes
(2015-01)In this paper we empirically compare the transaction costs from monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of two environmental regulations directed to cost-efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions: a carbon dioxide ... -
A Case-Study on Project-Level CO2 Mitigation Costs in Industrialised Countries - The Climate Cent Foundation in Switzerland
(2009-01-20)We analyse CO2 emissions reduction costs based on project data from the Climate Cent Foundation (CCF), a climate policy instrument in Switzerland. We draw four conclusions. First, for the projects investigated, the CCF ... -
Caseworker's discretion and the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs
(2018-07)In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to different policy regimes ... -
The Causal Effects of Ethnic Diversity: An Instrumental Variables Approach
(2009-10-05)Ethnic diversity is endogenous to economic development in the long run. Yet the standard approach in economic research is to treat ethnic diversity as an exogenous factor. By identifying instruments for ethnic diversity, ... -
CDS index options in Markov chain models
(University of Gothenburg, 2019-01-07)We study CDS index options in a credit risk model where the defaults times have intensities which are driven by a finite-state Markov chain representing the underlying economy. In this setting we derive compact computationally ... -
CDS INDEX OPTIONS UNDER INCOMPLETE INFORMATION
(2016-12)We derive practical formulas for CDS index spreads in a credit risk model under incomplete information. The factor process driving the default intensities is not directly observable, and the filtering model of Frey & Schmidt ... -
Celebrity Endorsement in Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavior
(2020-10)We conduct a natural field experiment on the effect of having a celebrity endorse an information campaign aiming to induce pro-environmental behavior in the context of single-use plastics consumption. We find that an ... -
Changing local customs: Long-run impacts of the earliest campaigns against female genital cutting
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-03)This paper investigates the long-run impacts of Christian missionary expansion on the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical analysis draws on historical data on the locations of early ...