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CSR public policies in India´s democracy: ambiguities in the political regulation of corporate conduct
(2017-03)
The rise of public policies in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) suggests
a reassertion of state power over a phenomenon initially designed to weaken public
authorities. But depending on policy objectives ...
The making of the 'Geisteswissenschaften': a case of boundary work?
(2017-06)
The paper is concerned with the making of the German humanities. To address this
topic, the boundary work approach is applied to the late 19th century, a historical
episode that has been crucial for the formation of an ...
The impacts of household water quality testing and information on safe water behaviors: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
(2017-03)
Households in developing countries face an enormous set of health risks from using contaminated water sources. In 2014, a group of 512 households relying on unimproved water, sanitation and hygiene practices in the Greater ...
Demand for off-grid solar electricity: Experimental evidence from Rwanda
(2017-02)
Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present ...
Migration when social preferences are ordinal: Steady state population distribution, and social welfare
(2017-02)
This paper adds three dimensions to the received literature: it models migration when the individuals’ preferences regarding their relative income are ordinal, it works out the resulting spatial steady state distribution ...
Global integration and world migration
(2017-02)
This paper explores the following chain of conjectures: rising use of the internet, the widespread access to global information, and intensified communication between regions and countries brought about, for example, by ...
Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia: Evidence from farm panel data
(2017-04)
The majority of the youth in Ethiopia live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of livelihood. Using gender- and age-specific values of agricultural labor return (shadow wages), we systematically analyse ...
A critical comparison of migration policies: Entry fee versus quota
(2017-07)
We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill composition of the country’s workforce, and when the policy menu consists of an entry fee and a quota. We ...
One-off subsidies and long-run adoption: Experimental evidence on improved cooking stoves in Senegal Bonn
(2017-04)
Free distribution of a technology can be an effective development policy instrument if its adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by affordability constraints. Improved cookstoves may be such a case: they generate ...
On the train to brain gain in rural China
(2017-01)
This study investigates the well-researched relationship between migration and the formation of human capital in the source region using a novel instrument: the existence of a local train station. We make use of Chinese ...