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Politically Feasible Emission Target Formulas to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
A new climate change treaty must plug three gaps: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the absence of participation by the United States, China, and other developing countries, and the absence of ...
Environmental Effects of International Trade
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
The report surveys the state of our knowledge regarding the effects of trade on the environment. A central question is whether globalization helps or hurts in achieving the best tradeoff between environmental and economic ...
Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical ...
How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
Biofuels have become big policy and big business. Government targets, mandates, and blending quotas have created a growing demand for biofuels. Some say that the U.S. biofuels industry was created by government policies. ...
Building Social Capital Through Microfinance
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building social capital. Yet, despite strong theoretical underpinnings, the role of repeat interactions in sustaining cooperation has ...
Deals Versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions ...
Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
Data on 2,288 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are deployed to study how off-farm female employment affects fertility. Such employment reduces a married woman’s actual number of children by ...