Review of periodical literature for 2023: (iii) 1500–1700
Publication status: Published
Global, robust and comparable digital carbon assets
Carbon credits purchased in the voluntary carbon market allow unavoidable emissions, such as international flights for essential travel, to be offset by an equivalent climate benefit, such as avoiding emissions from tropical deforestation. However, many concerns regarding the credibility of these offsetting claims have been raised. Moreover, the cr...
Inferring Trade-Offs in University Admissions: Evidence from Cambridge
How do elite universities balance diversity and academics during admissions, anddo they face a trade-off in doing so? We develop a theory-based empirical framework to identify and quantify this potential trade-off ex-post, using post-entry outcomes. We apply our framework to admission and exam-performance data from Cambridge University. Comparing d...
Integrability and Identification in Multinomial Choice Models
McFadden's random-utility model of multinomial choice has long been the workhorse of applied research. We establish shape-restrictions with respect to price and income which are necessary and sufficient for multinomial choice-probability functions to be rationalized via random-utility models with additive but nonparametric unobserved heterogeneity ...
Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity
School Education in Post-18th Amendment Balochistan: A Political Economy Perspective
In the wake of devolution of education to provinces through the 18th Constitutional Amendment, there has been a noticeable increase in public spending on school education. Moreover, certain reforms have been introduced in education planning, management and monitoring. These measures have enhanced availability of physical infrastructure and reading ...
The sources of scale: Large employers in Britain in 1881
The paper assesses the relative weight of different sources of workforce size, using both relative marginal effects and proportion of variance explained for the 545 largest British firms in 1881. Despite data uncertainties, integration is shown as the largest contributor to scale. Integration with mining had even larger effects, raising employment ...
Organizing Modular Production
Products are increasingly made by assembling separately produced modules. Motivated by the notion that a firm's production function drives its organization, we explore how modular production shapes a firm's communication structure. Decisions are partitioned into modules and require closer coordination within modules than across. Each agent knows th...
The Many Faces of Environmental Security
This review surveys recent evidence on environmental security, bringing diverse approaches to the subject and evidence relating to different environmental issues into conversation with one another. We focus on the five environmental issues most commonly viewed as having conflict or security effects: climate change, water, forests and deforestation...
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education
Anti-scientific attitudes can impose substantial costs on societies. Can schools be an important agent in mitigating the propagation of such attitudes? This article investigates the effect of the content of science education on anti-scientific attitudes, knowledge, and choices. The analysis exploits staggered reforms that reduce or expand t...
