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Reducing Inefficiency in Carbon Auctions with Imperfect Competition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
We study auctions for carbon licenses, a policy tool used to control the social cost of pollution. Each identical license grants the right to produce a unit of pollution.
Goldner, Kira   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Scientific Opinion on bluetongue serotype 8

open access: yesEFSA Journal, 2011
To answer a question from the European Commission on the potential special characteristics of bluetongue virus (BTV) serotype 8 (BTV‐8) compared to other serotypes and their possible impact on the epidemiology of the disease, a systematic literature ...
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare
doaj   +1 more source

The Welfare Effects of Social Media

open access: yesThe American Economic Review, 2019
The rise of social media has provoked both optimism about potential societal benefits and concern about harms such as addiction, depression, and political polarization.
Hunt Allcott   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Welfare systems without economic growth: A review of the challenges and next steps for the field

open access: yes, 2021
Welfare systems across the OECD face many combined challenges, with rising inequality, demographic changes and environmental crises likely to drive up welfare demand in the coming decades.
C. Walker, A. Druckman, Tim Jackson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Impact of the 2018 Tariffs on Prices and Welfare

open access: yesJournal of Economic Perspectives, 2019
We examine conventional approaches to evaluating the economic impact of protectionist trade policies. We illustrate these conventional approaches by applying them to the tariffs introduced by the Trump administration during 2018.
M. Amiti, S. Redding, David E. Weinstein
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Managing the Socially Marginalized: Attitudes Towards Welfare, Punishment and Race [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Welfare and incarceration policies have converged to form a system of governance over socially marginalized groups, particularly racial minorities. In both of these policy areas, rehabilitative and social support objectives have been replaced with a more
Amenta E.   +34 more
core   +2 more sources

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies*

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of Economics, 2019
We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job training, taxes and cash transfers, and in-kind transfers.
Nathaniel Hendren, Ben Sprung-Keyser
semanticscholar   +1 more source

It is not a broken system, it is a system that needs to be broken: the upEND movement to abolish the child welfare system

open access: yesJournal of Public Child Welfare, 2020
The child welfare system disproportionately harms Black children and families through systemic over-surveillance, over-involvement, and the resulting adverse outcomes associated with foster care.
Alan J. Dettlaff   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bluetongue: control, surveillance and safe movement of animals

open access: yesEFSA Journal, 2017
The performance of different bluetongue control measures related to both vaccination and protection from bluetongue virus (BTV) vectors was assessed. By means of a mathematical model, it was concluded that when vaccination is applied on 95% of animals ...
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare
doaj   +1 more source

Scientific Opinion on Rift Valley fever [PDF]

open access: yesEFSA Journal, 2013
Based on a comprehensive review of literature and OIE (World Animal Health Organisation) outbreak reports, this scientific opinion reports, first, that there is no evidence that Rift Valley fever (RVF) has spread to previously uninfected countries during
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
doaj   +1 more source

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