Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102637
Alexander J. Chesney
This paper investigates how promotion policies impact advanced education attainment on employees throughout a career. Using administrative data from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), I leverage a natural experiment where academic credentials were masked from promotion consideration. I exploit an event study and difference-in-differences design to find individuals are 14 percentage points (26 percent relative to the mean) less likely to complete a master’s degree when education credentials are no longer considered for promotion. I then explore possible mechanisms by describing how a graduate degree’s promotion premium fluctuates before and after the policy change. I show attendance at for-profit institutions declined substantially after the policy reform; however, I find the promotion premium of a master’s degree from a for-profit to be similar to other academic institutions.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108566
Ted Gleason
International investment law has potential unintended consequences on emerging local experiments in economic governance aiming to decouple economic growth from the use of natural resources and environmental degradation. While local regulatory measures may appear detached from international legal obligations, conduct of territorial governmental entities can be attributed to States on the same basis as central governments. Consequently, local measures which stray from 20th century economic paradigms and negatively impact projects protected under an operative international investment agreement may lead to international legal responsibility. This article seeks to answer the question of whether international investment law creates barriers to local implementation of alternative economic approaches. It finds that such barriers exist and explores avenues for overcoming such obstacles in the near-term. The article also finds that local actors must pay attention to multi-layered considerations beyond the local context as regulatory measures implementing postgrowth or degrowth approaches are not isolated from other levels of governance. It also highlights pathways for ensuring local regulatory autonomy. It concludes that while conflict between international investment law and local alternative economic approaches will persist in the near future, immediately available albeit imperfect pathways to mitigate the risk of international responsibility for local regulatory measures are available.
{"title":"Assessing pathways for pursuing coherence between local implementation of emerging alternative economic approaches and international investment law","authors":"Ted Gleason","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108566","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108566","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>International investment law has potential unintended consequences on emerging local experiments in economic governance aiming to decouple economic growth from the use of natural resources and environmental degradation. While local regulatory measures may appear detached from international legal obligations, conduct of territorial governmental entities can be attributed to States on the same basis as central governments. Consequently, local measures which stray from 20th century economic paradigms and negatively impact projects protected under an operative international investment agreement may lead to international legal responsibility. This article seeks to answer the question of whether international investment law creates barriers to local implementation of alternative economic approaches. It finds that such barriers exist and explores avenues for overcoming such obstacles in the near-term. The article also finds that local actors must pay attention to multi-layered considerations beyond the local context as regulatory measures implementing postgrowth or degrowth approaches are not isolated from other levels of governance. It also highlights pathways for ensuring local regulatory autonomy. It concludes that while conflict between international investment law and local alternative economic approaches will persist in the near future, immediately available albeit imperfect pathways to mitigate the risk of international responsibility for local regulatory measures are available.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51021,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Economics","volume":"232 ","pages":"Article 108566"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143552445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105844
Fajle Rabbi Ashik , Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh , Kevin Manaugh
The layout of streets forms a skeleton of cities that shapes the long-term development of urban form and land use. The enduring nature of street connectivity implies that any later modifications to other elements of urban infrastructure cannot escape the constraints imposed by the initial street connectivity. Hence, this study examines whether initial street network connectivity leads to subsequent densification. Using Canadian urban neighborhoods as an empirical context, we provide a causal estimation of the effect of the Street-Network Disconnectedness index (SNDi)—a measure of how disconnected a street network is—on densification. Our estimation shows that a 10 % increase in SNDi leads to a considerable 17 % decrease in population density change. The study also provides strong evidence of the spillover effect of surrounding SNDi on the subsequent evolution of density. These results underscore the necessary function of street network connectivity in densification, reinforcing its need in planning policies aimed at reducing transport emissions through densification.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104010
Rafael Rosales
Logistics is a vital yet energy-intensive sector and policies for sustainable logistics require cooperation between public authorities and businesses. However, public authorities and businesses may have different perceptions of what sustainable logistics entails. Research on logistics has typically either addressed strategies in private firms or investigated public sector plans and goals. This paper examines how ‘sustainable logistics’ is operationalised differently between public and business narratives based on three ‘grand narratives’: decarbonisation, collective logistics and low-mobility society. Data collection is based on document analysis of 18 public and business strategies for logistics in Norway, 42 semi-structured interviews and a survey with 88 respondents, all centred on the major urban areas in Norway (Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger). It finds that there is a discrepancy between public and business narratives for sustainable logistics, where public authorities promote all three narratives, with an emphasis on low-mobility society, whereas firms mainly target decarbonisation. This can help explain why collaboration between the public and business sectors has mainly addressed emissions and congestion as opposed to traffic reductions. A combination of the grand narratives is necessary to achieve an overall sustainable transport sector, but public authorities do not give logistics as much attention as passenger transport, reinforcing the business focus on decarbonisation.
{"title":"Less emissions or less freight? Conflicting narratives for sustainable logistics in Norway","authors":"Rafael Rosales","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Logistics is a vital yet energy-intensive sector and policies for sustainable logistics require cooperation between public authorities and businesses. However, public authorities and businesses may have different perceptions of what sustainable logistics entails. Research on logistics has typically either addressed strategies in private firms or investigated public sector plans and goals. This paper examines how ‘sustainable logistics’ is operationalised differently between public and business narratives based on three ‘grand narratives’: <em>decarbonisation</em>, <em>collective logistics</em> and <em>low-mobility society</em>. Data collection is based on document analysis of 18 public and business strategies for logistics in Norway, 42 semi-structured interviews and a survey with 88 respondents, all centred on the major urban areas in Norway (Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger). It finds that there is a discrepancy between public and business narratives for sustainable logistics, where public authorities promote all three narratives, with an emphasis on <em>low-mobility society</em>, whereas firms mainly target <em>decarbonisation</em>. This can help explain why collaboration between the public and business sectors has mainly addressed emissions and congestion as opposed to traffic reductions. A combination of the grand narratives is necessary to achieve an overall sustainable transport sector, but public authorities do not give logistics as much attention as passenger transport, reinforcing the business focus on <em>decarbonisation</em>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"122 ","pages":"Article 104010"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105849
María Andrade Suárez, Estefanía López Salas, Iria Caamaño Franco, Antonio Álvarez Sousa
Pilgrimage routes can be traversed by thousands of people, but their impact is felt almost exclusively in the places situated directly along the paths. Thus, multiple rural regions remain passive witnesses to the flows of pilgrims, when in fact they could add content and value to the experiences, especially considering that in these places, slow tourism is still possible. The objective of this research is to explore the challenges and opportunities offered by heritage in urban-rural dynamics in the context of rural regeneration near pilgrimage routes as a tool for promoting sustainable development. Through what strategies can the charm of the cultural heritage of the rural areas near pilgrimage routes be leveraged? To this end, four case studies from Europe traversed by different transnational pilgrimage routes were selected. The study is based on primary sources such as 16 interviews and 384 surveys and secondary sources such as statistics and existing studies to design common foundations. This work additionally allows the identification of good/best practices. The main results highlight bringing together significant cultural experiences with resources found in the rural environment, mobilizing transport, accommodation, and catering in one click, and offering complete packages to pilgrims through tailored promotion methods.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108567
Mihai Mutascu
The paper explores the impact of economic development on environmental degradation in the United States of America (US) using a Wavelet Quantile Correlation (WQC) methodology proposed by Kumar and Padakandla (2022). The span covers the period 1992M1-2022M12.
The analysis does not confirm the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in the US, offering short-term and long-term perspectives of the ‘economic development - environmental degradation’ nexus as a novelty.
The core findings show a strong link between economic development and environmental degradation in the US, with short-term patterns exhibiting a negative sign in inverted-S and S shapes. Long-term patterns, however, display a positive sign in S and inverted-S shapes.
These results remain robust across different gas types but with a time-delay effects due to molecular differences and their respective impacts on climate and environmental health.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102635
Nazar Khalid , Jere R. Behrman , Emily Hannum , Amrit Thapa
India has the world’s largest number of school-aged children. The majority live in rural areas, many of which are highly flood-prone. Previous studies document that in such areas, floods are associated with lower enrollments, attendance, and learning, in some cases with differentiation by gender, caste/religion, and family SES. Previous literature suggests that components of community infrastructure have positive associations with children’s learning. However, previous literature has not addressed whether better community physical and social infrastructures are associated with (1) smaller flood-related learning losses on average, (2) different learning for marginalized versus other children in the absence of floods, and (3) different vulnerabilities to floods for marginalized versus other children. This paper finds that (1) most aspects of community physical and social infrastructure are not associated with lower flood-related learning losses on average, but proximity to towns and several components of social infrastructure are associated with lower flood-related learning losses on average, (2) community physical and social infrastructure components have heterogeneous associations, in some cases increasing, in most cases not affecting, and in other cases reducing disparities in learning between marginalized and other children in the absence of floods, and (3) community physical and social infrastructure components have heterogeneous effects, in some cases increasing, in most cases not affecting, and in other cases reducing disparities in learning between marginalized and other children in the presence of floods.
{"title":"Floods, community infrastructure, and children’s heterogeneous learning losses in rural India","authors":"Nazar Khalid , Jere R. Behrman , Emily Hannum , Amrit Thapa","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102635","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102635","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>India has the world’s largest number of school-aged children. The majority live in rural areas, many of which are highly flood-prone. Previous studies document that in such areas, floods are associated with lower enrollments, attendance, and learning, in some cases with differentiation by gender, caste/religion, and family SES. Previous literature suggests that components of community infrastructure have positive associations with children’s learning. However, previous literature has not addressed whether better community physical and social infrastructures are associated with (1) smaller flood-related learning losses on average, (2) different learning for marginalized versus other children in the absence of floods, and (3) different vulnerabilities to floods for marginalized versus other children. This paper finds that (1) most aspects of community physical and social infrastructure are not associated with lower flood-related learning losses on average, but proximity to towns and several components of social infrastructure are associated with lower flood-related learning losses on average, (2) community physical and social infrastructure components have heterogeneous associations, in some cases increasing, in most cases not affecting, and in other cases reducing disparities in learning between marginalized and other children in the absence of floods, and (3) community physical and social infrastructure components have heterogeneous effects, in some cases increasing, in most cases not affecting, and in other cases reducing disparities in learning between marginalized and other children in the presence of floods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 102635"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105335
Maxim Massenkoff , Nathan Wilmers
We use location data to study cross-class encounters. Low-income and especially high-income individuals are socially isolated: they are more likely than other income groups to encounter people from their own class. Counterfactual exercises suggest this is explained largely by residential segregation and firms. Among firms, casual restaurants make the largest positive contribution to cross-class encounters through both scale and their diversity of visitors. Dollar stores and libraries isolate visitors. Our local measure of encounters is strongly associated with cross-class Facebook friendships, which have been previously shown to correlate with intergenerational mobility.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105521
Ablay Dosmaganbetov , Simeon Nanovsky
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative was originally conceived by Tony Blair in 2002 to improve the transparency and accountability of extractive industries in resource-rich economies. It is theorized that added transparency will create an environment welcoming foreign direct investment (FDI). To investigate this claim, this paper studies the impact of EITI on FDI using a panel dataset of 62 countries over 30 years. The results show that EITI membership significantly increases FDI by roughly 50% depending on the specification. Further, when examining interaction and threshold effects, the paper finds asymmetric impacts during global economic downturns: while countries that leave EITI experience significant reductions in FDI, even the mere intention to join EITI is associated with significant increases in FDI. These findings demonstrate that EITI membership serves as an effective policy mechanism for attracting foreign investment in resource-rich developing economies.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105836
Hannah Berner , Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado , Enrico Gualini
The social effectiveness and legitimacy of climate adaptation largely depends on addressing the inequitable impacts of climate change on urban populations. Yet, there is a limited understanding of how cities attempt and succeed in integrating an equity perspective into the rapidly growing field of spatial adaptation strategies. This article explores the integration of climate change adaptation and equity in urban planning. It explores how discourses and concepts on climate equity are impacting and changing urban planning cultures and practices. For this purpose, the cases of Barcelona and Berlin, two progressive ‘early adopter’ cities are analyzed. Based on a framework highlighting the recognitional, procedural, and distributional dimensions of ‘equitable resilience’, our analysis shows the diverse approaches by which these cities adopt the dual goals of climate adaptation and equity in planning. The case-studies highlight ambiguities and gaps related to conceptual underpinnings, planning and participation processes, and consistent implementation of equitable resilience measures. However, both cities show a general openness to progressive approaches, such as intersectional perspectives and integration of various policy fields in local measures. The case-studies illustrate how ‘equitable resilience’ can serve as a catalyst for innovative concepts, robust normative principles, and experimental practices for urban climate policy and planning.
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