Book abstract: The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements seeks to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound,…
For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and…
In this age of retro-chic, people who have tumbled down the economic ladder are savoring life at the lower rungs. Executives who used to…
At the core of the cap-and-trade approach is a new financial market in carbon permits. The economics of a cap mean that permit prices will…
For many years, there have been calls from some quarters for greater reliance on the use of economic analysis in the development and…
Propensity score matching estimators (Rosenbaum and Rubin, 1983) are widely used in evaluation research to estimate average treatment…
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…
There is growing impetus for a domestic US climate policy that can providemeaningful reductions
in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and…
Book abstract: The new Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences is an indispensable resource for all who wish to find out…