314 research outputs found
The "Greening" of trade unions and the demand for eco-taxes
No full textFredriksson, Per G; Gaston, Noe
The multiplier effect of globalization
No full textCopyright © 2004 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.Richard Damania, Per G. Fredriksson and John A. Listhttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505574/description#descriptio
Environmental Governance in federal systems: The effects of capital competition and lobby groups
No full textFredriksson, P.G. ; Gaston,
Trade liberalization, corruption, and environmental policy formation: theory and evidence
No full textThis study explores the linkages between trade policy, corruption, and environmental policy. We begin by presenting a theoretical model that produces several testable predictions, including: (i) the effect of trade liberalization on the stringency of environmental policy depends on the level of corruption; and (ii) corruption reduces environmental policy stringency. Using panel data from a mix of developed and developing countries from 1982 to 1992, we find evidence that supports these conjectures. We view these results as representing an attempt at understanding the myriad of complex relationships that exist in an open economy.Richard Damania, Per G. Fredriksson and John A. Listhttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622870/description#descriptio
Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy
No full textImmigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly educated adults sharing the subject’s ethnicity. A standard deviation increase in the fraction of highly educated adults in the assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA.peer effects, ethnic enclaves, immigration, school performance
Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement – evidence from a placement policy
No full textImmigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly educated adults sharing the subject’s ethnicity. A standard deviation increase in the fraction of highly educated adults in the assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA.Peer effects; Ethnic enclaves; Immigration; School performance
Trade policy: What's welfare got to do with it?
No full textCopyright © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Richard Damania and Per G. Fredrikssonhttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505574/description#descriptio
Environmentalism, democracy, and pollution control
No full textThis paper makes two empirical contributions to the literature, based on predictions generated by a lobby group model. First, we investigate how environmental lobby groups affect the determination of environmental policy in rich and developing countries. Second, we explore the interaction between democratic participation and political (electoral) competition. The empirical findings suggest that environmental lobby groups tend to positively affect the stringency of environmental policy. Moreover, political competition tends to raise policy stringency, in particular where citizens’ participation in the democratic process is widespread.Per G. Fredriksson, Eric Neumayer, Richard Damania and Scott Gateshttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622870/description#descriptio
Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement - Evidence from a Placement Policy
No full textWe examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that school performance is increasing in the number of highly educated adults sharing the subject’s ethnicity. A standard deviation increase in the fraction of high-educated in the assigned neighborhood raises compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. Particularly for disadvantaged groups, there are also long-run effects on educational attainment.Peer effects; Ethnic enclaves; Immigration; School performance
Trade policy reform, endogenous lobby group formation, and environmental policy
No full textCopyright © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.This paper explores the effects of trade liberalization on environmental policy outcomes when collective action is endogenous. The polluting industry’s ability to undertake lobbying is shown to depend on the degree of competition in the product market, establishing a new link between trade and environmental policies. If trade liberalization causes industry collective action to become harder to sustain, the stringency of the environmental policy is likely to rise. These results highlight the role of trade liberalization on product market competition and its consequent impact on the incentive to lobby for less stringent environmental policies.Richard Damania and Per G. Fredrikssonhttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505559/description#descriptio
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