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ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos +2 more
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Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility [PDF]
Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results, partly because of large sampling errors. By making more efficient use of the available information in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we
Gary Solon, Chul-In Lee
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ABSTRACT The global food system faces sustainability, safety, and equity challenges. Agroecological practises offer solutions through sustainable production and resource conservation. This study examines apricot producers' willingness to adopt agricultural practises in Malatya, Türkiye, focusing on their attitudes, behaviours and the factors ...
Deniz Sarica, Seydanur Albayrak
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Mechanism and Measurement [PDF]
Based on a model of two-stage life cycle, this paper investigates and measures intergerational relationships in lifetime earnings. Using data from PSID, I have found that the lifetime earnings transmission equation is non-linear.
Honggao Cao
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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The Family, Inheritance, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality
Unequal inheritance of material wealth is commonly considered a major cause of inequality in consumption. However, theoretical models of the intergenerational transmission of inequality by Becker, Blinder, and Ishikawa imply that unequal inheritance may either increase or reduce consumption inequality.
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement? [PDF]
Using cultural transmission, we develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children's educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for high-educated
Patacchini, Eleonora, Zenou, Yves
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Income Mobility, Automation, and Occupational Licensing
ABSTRACT Technological change has long been tied with distributional concerns due to displacement against certain skills on labor markets. Short‐run dislocations could create scarring in the long run. For example, shifts against less skilled workers with children could limit their ability to improve the inter‐generational income mobility of their ...
Vincent Geloso +2 more
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Systems Thinking for T‐Shaped Sustainability Education: A Viable Systems Approach (vSa)
ABSTRACT Sustainability represents a complex and evolving paradigm calling for competences necessary for a deep understanding of the interdependencies among human, environmental, economic, and cultural dimensions. Along with a review of the literature and an analysis of official guidelines from leading international institutions, this study assesses ...
Marialuisa Saviano +4 more
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Intergenerational transmission of women’s educational attainment in South Korea [PDF]
Using a multi-group population projection model, this study examines the implications of educational mobility and differential demographic rates on changing women’s educational distribution in South Korea.
Bongoh Kye
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