Low rates of adoption of and low willingness to pay for preventative health technologies pose an ongoing puzzle. In the case of water-borne disease, the burden is high both in terms of poor health and cost of treatment. Inexpensive preventative technologies are available, but willingness to pay (WTP) for products such as chlorine treatment or ceramic filters has been observed to be low in a num...

T he main purpose of this paper is to investigate and compare the impact of tourism on air pollution in selected developed and developing countries during the period of 1995-2014. To this end, at first, the model was designed based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) assumptions and with the presence of the major influencing factors on air pollution along with the international ...

A growing body of literature has investigated the wage penalty of motherhood showing that motherhood has a negative impact on women’s earnings. Explanations for this pattern focus on the impact of motherhood on work experience and job productivity, as well as employer discrimination. There is also a substantial body of research on the marriage premium for men showing that married men earn more ...

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Mexican Clean Industry Program, in which firms participate voluntarily if they are willing to meet the pollution emissions legal standards in exchange for a Clean Industry Certificate. It first develops a simple model with two groups of players, firms and the authorities. Firms can choose to be in compliance, non compliance or participate in the pro...