Building Human and Institutional Capacity – brief actionable research agenda

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:

Assessment of individual, organizational, and institutional capacities is important to accelerate the pace of transition to a low-carbon economy. Human and Institutional Capacity is part of a larger initiative to identify the most promising research issues to support an actionable low-carbon transition in the Global South. 

Policy Design

Enabling Policy Environment - brief actionable research agenda

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Identifying policies and the corresponding actors, processes, and methods that enable the creation of a policy environment are important to put climate and low-carbon energy transition policies in motion. 

Enabling Policy Environment is part of a larger initiative to identify the most promising research issues to support an actionable low-carbon transition in the Global South. 

Policy Design

Household electricity consumption inefficiency and poverty: Evidence from Ghana

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

Key Messages 

Improvements in household electricity consumption resulting from efficiency improvements have the potential to reduce household electricity expenditure, and consequently the level of poverty among households. However, little is known about the extent to which improvement in electricity consumption efficiency can reduce poverty. Our study finds that: 

Climate Change, Energy, Policy Design

Abundance of Resources and Incentives for Collusion in Fisheries

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on
EfD Authors:

The aim of this study is to explore theoretically the circumstances in which collusion can emerge between artisanal organizations and external agents. We also analyze theoretically how collusion can alter the sustainability equilibria of marine resources. In situations of incomplete information where external agents are not aware of the initial stock of resources, we observe how those agents decide whether to accept or reject offers of collusion from artisanal organizations.

Fisheries, Policy Design

Does price-cap regulation work for increasing access to contraceptives? Aggregate-and pharmacy-level evidence from Colombia

Submitted by Manuela Fonseca on
EfD Authors:

Price caps through international reference pricing are widely used worldwide but not so commonly in over-the-counter markets. We study the short-term effects of a price cap regulation for oral contraceptives in Colombia, a market dominated by the presence of several branded generics with multiple active ingredients.

Policy Design

Ego-relevance in team production

Submitted by Manuela Fonseca on
EfD Authors:

We study how individuals’ effort contribution to a team production task varies depending on whether the task is ego relevant or not. We conduct an experiment to test the effect of ego-relevance when the team production depends on the team’s top- or bottom-performer. Ego-relevance is manipulated by calling the Raven IQ Test an “IQ Task” or a “Pattern Task.” We find that the effort contributed to the task is affected by ego-relevance and the impact of the team production function on effort contribution is mediated by the teammate’s expected effort contribution.

Policy Design