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Private Regulation on the Environment: Bilateral Voluntary Agreements in U.S. Toxic Chemical Policy
(2013-04-17)In recent decades, in the backdrop of highly constrained government and public sector finances worldwide, private forms of regulation in natural resource and environmental policy have gained political and public salience: ... -
The Public Role of the Private Sector: Measuring Corporate Social Performance in India
(2014-02-24)Corporate social disclosure has emerged as a cornerstone topic of research for examining how firms use various communication media to signal virtue and publicize substantive as opposed to symbolic implementation to their ... -
Rental Market Discrimination in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
It is generally accepted that households in the Housing Choice Voucher program (HCV) encounter discrimination when searching for private market units. Observational research suggests that households and program administrators ... -
Think Globally, Act Locally? Local Mitigation Within a Rational Choice Framework
In the United States, localities were the first – and for the most part, remain the only – level of government to seriously attempt the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. These local attempts to address the global ... -
Threatening Messages in Climate Change Communication
Climate change will have disastrous consequences if left unchecked. Climate change communication represents a means to encourage conservation behavior and support for climate mitigation policies. One oft-discussed but ... -
Three Essays on Labor and Government Policy in Developing Countries
In this dissertation, I examine household labor allocation in two developing countries: India and Malawi. I focus on the interaction between government policies and household labor allocation decisions. The first and second ...