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Allocation of carbon emission quotas in China’s provincial power sector based on entropy method and ZSG-DEA

, 2020
The power sector accounted for almost 40% of China’s carbon emissions in 2017 and is the first industry that is included in the national carbon emission trading system, so the current paper carries out a study on allocating carbon emission allowances for
Xiaoyan Cui, T. Zhao, Juan Wang
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Quota mobility and quota values

Food Policy, 1992
Abstract The institutional arrangements governing quota mobility influence quota prices and the structural development of the dairy sector. This article considers milk quotas in a number of OECD countries where they are applied under different conditions and with various policy goals.
Oskam, A.J., Speijers, D.P.
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Gender Quotas, Women’s Representation, and Legislative Diversity

Journal of Politics, 2020
Diversity in the characteristics of political leaders increases the quality of policy, perceptions of legitimacy, and accountability to constituents. Yet, increasing leaders’ diversity proves one of the most difficult challenges facing modern democracy ...
Tiffany D. Barnes, Mirya R. Holman
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Reserving Time for Daddy: The Consequences of Fathers’ Quotas

Journal of Labor Economics, 2019
“Daddy quotas” that reserve some parental leave for fathers are increasingly common in developed nations, but it is unclear whether fathers respond to the binding constraints or the labeling effects they produce.
Ankita Patnaik
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QUOTAS

In 1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced a Jewish quota for university admissions, making Hungary the first country in Europe to pass antisemitic legislation following World War I. Quotas explores the ideologies and practices of quota regimes and the ways quotas have been justified, implemented, challenged, and remembered from the late nineteenth ...
Miller, Michael L., Szapor, Judith
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Implementing Inclusion: Gender Quotas, Inequality, and Backlash in Kenya

Politics & Gender, 2020
Extensive research has affirmed the potential of gender quotas to advance women's political inclusion. When Kenya's gender quota took effect after a new constitution was promulgated in 2010, women were elected to the highest number of seats in the ...
M. Berry, Yolande Bouka, Marilyn Muthoni Kamuru   +2 more
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Allocation of carbon emission quotas in Chinese provinces based on equality and efficiency principles

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
The allocation of carbon emission quotas is crucial to the establishment of carbon emission trading scheme (ETS) in response to China's 2030 emission reduction target.
Ying Kong, Tao Zhao, R. Yuan, Chen Chen
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Construction land quotas as a tool for managing urban expansion

, 2020
This paper examines the effectiveness of construction land quotas as a tool for managing urban expansion in China. Applying a difference-in-difference approach to panel data from 2006 to 2010 in 243 Chinese cities, it was found that construction land ...
Li Fang, Chuanhao Tian
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Gender Attitudes and Public Opinion Towards Electoral Gender Quotas in Brazil

Political Psychology, 2020
Research on public opinion towards affirmative action shows that citizens often support the principle of equality while simultaneously rejecting policies that promote it in a pattern described as the “principle-policy puzzle.” The scholarship also shows ...
F. Pereira, N. Porto
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How Do Gender Quotas Affect Workplace Relationships? Complementary Evidence from a Representative Survey and Labor Market Experiments

Management Sciences, 2020
Gender quotas are frequently proposed to address persistent gender imbalances in managerial roles. However, it is unclear how quotas for female managers affect organizations and whether quotas improve or damage relationships between managers and their ...
Edwin Ip, A. Leibbrandt, J. Vecci
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