It has become common for governments and practitioners to measure mobility using data from smartphones, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet in countries where few people have smartphones, or use...
Geothermal power production may result in significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. GHG emissions from geothermal power production, mostly in the form of CO2, are generally low in comparison to traditional...
The authors study attitudes towards domestic violence in a sample of young women and men exposed to the edutainment TV series MTV Shuga 3, which features a sub-plot on this theme, and in a sample that...
Emerging evidence demonstrates migration may be used by individuals in the southern hemisphere to adapt to environmental changes. The authors build upon recent work in the region using a similar triple...
The authors document the correlation between the workplace diversity of bureaucracies and public services delivered. The authors do so in the context of the federal civil service in Nigeria, the most important...
Fundamental questions about how resources are allocated within the family remain unresolved. Because family decision making is a repeated game and there is caring, it is generally posited that the marriage...
Many subjects in lab experiments show considerable risk aversion in small-stakes gambles. This is counter to the predictions of expected utility theory for any reasonable degree of risk aversion but is...
The conference "Thailand's Dynamic Economic Recovery and Competitiveness" (Bangkok, May 20-21, 1998) was organized by the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) with assistance...
The available evidence indicates that, in aggregate, the growth in world food production over the past two decades has more than kept pace with the growth in population. This paper analyzes recent trends...
This paper presents a framework for electric power pricing, reviews the basic theory of marginal cost pricing applicable to the power sector, and summarizes recent developments. The adaptation of the theory...
Methods to analyze and reduce the costs of surveys must receive greater attention if research budgets are to be utilized efficiently. This paper analyzes two of the factors that contribute to the unit...