Institute for Policy Reform Archive

With the theory of optimal risk bearing and complete markets in mind, field research and an administered survey attempted to measure the key features of the environment a [...]

This paper presents an overview and discussion of nine studies that attempt to explain educational achievement and attainment/participation) in different African countrie [...]

A theoretical model of emission reductions is specified that accounts for voluntary and nonvoluntary behavior regarding the adherence to the Helsinki and Sofia Protocols, [...]

Three features characterize utilities: first, their technologies are characterized by large specific, sunk, investments; second, their technologies are characterized by i [...]

Many proposed and actual environmental taxes are taxes on intermediate goods. These goods, such as fossil fuels, are typically tradable, and they are also used in the pro [...]

We present a model of bargaining between politicians and managers that explains many stylized 'facts about the behavior of state firms, their commercialization, and priva [...]

This paper joins the growing debate over whether developing countries should be compensated for achieving higher environmental management standards for global resources o [...]

Reduced form explanations of population growth are decomposed into fertility and mortality. These reduced form equations are estimated first from three cross sections of [...]

Rural households in many developing countries have incomes that vary seasonally. :This paper explores whether and to what extent rural Indian households are able to use s [...]

This paper studies the effect of foreign aid on economic stabilization. Following Alesina and Drazen (1991), we model ,the delay in stabilizing as the result of a distrib [...]