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Climate change events in the Bengali migration to the Chittagong Hill Tracts ...
The internal migration of Bengali people to the CHT since the 1970s has been a significant factor in the long-standing ethnopolitical conflict in this region. The prevailing... -
School Quality and Peer Effects: Explaining Differences in Academic Performan...
In China, parents have a choice to either send their children to private migrant schools in urban areas or to keep them in their own county. It is unclear whether the academic... -
Efficiency and Status in Polygynous Pastoralist Households
Decision-making structures may be different across polygynous and monogamous households, leading to different economic outcomes and requiring different targeting of anti-poverty... -
The evolution of transformational change in multilateral funds dedicated to f...
Transformational adaptation is increasingly viewed as necessary to prevent the worst offsets in development gains due to severe climate impacts. However, clarity regarding how... -
An Evaluation of the Policy Response to Drought in the City of São Paulo, Bra...
Drought can have large, negative impacts on livelihoods and development outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. This highlights the need for drought response policies that... -
Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip
We present a comprehensive multi-scale test of the diversity-deficit hypothesis that posits a negative association between diversity and development. We develop a ‘scale-flip... -
How Do Legal Strategies Advance Social Accountability? Evaluating Mechanisms ...
While prior studies have suggested that legal strategies offer promising tools for social accountability, the existing literature has not yet identified the underlying... -
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Contrary to what is needed for reducing global GHG emissions, successive Canadian governments have placed fossil fuel production at the core of national economic development.... -
He Has Gone to a Better Place, but She Has Not: Health Status of Hindu Widows...
Using detailed individual and household-level data from the first two rounds of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) conducted in 2004–05 and 2011–12, this paper estimates... -
Measuring Environmental Values and Identity
Scholars who study environmental problems across the social sciences often require a measure of the lens through which people filter information. Many scales have been created...
