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Water pricing in irrigation: the lifetime of an idea / Francois Molle, Jeremy Berkoff -- Water pricing in irrigation: mapping the debate in the light of experience / Francois Molle, Jeremy Berkoff -- Why is agricultural water demand irresponsive at low price ranges? / Charlotte de Fraiture, Chris Perry -- 'Get the prices right' / Isha Ray -- Thailand's 'free water' / Francois Molle -- Water rights and water fees in Tanzania / Barbara van Koppen ... [et al.] -- Who will pay for water? the Vietnamese state's dilemma of decentralization of water management in the Red River Delta / Jean-Philippe Fontenelle, Francois Molle, Hugh Turral -- Water pricing in Haryana, India / Petra Hellegers, Chris Perry, Jeremy Berkoff -- Energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia / Tushaar Shah ... [et al.] -- Wells and canals in Jordan / J.P. Venot, Francois Molle, and Yousef Hassan -- Water pricing in Tadla, Morocco / Petra Hellegers, Chris Perry, Thomas Petitguyot -- Water pricing policies and recent reforms in China / Bryan Lohmar ... [et al.] -- Water pricing and irrigation / Julio Berbel, Javier Calatrava, Alberto Garrido -- Policy-driven determinants of irrigation development and environmental sustainability / Consuelo Varela-Ortega

In the early 2000s, a highly selective university introduced a "no-loans" policy under which the loan component of financial aid awards was replaced with grants. We use this natural experiment to identify the causal effect of student debt on employment outcomes. In the standard life-cycle model, young people make optimal educational investment decisions if they are able to finance these investments by borrowing against future earnings; the presence of debt has only income effects on future decisions. We find that debt causes graduates to choose substantially higher-salary jobs and reduces the probability that students choose low-paid "public interest" jobs. We also find some evidence that debt affects students' academic decisions during college. Our estimates suggest that recent college graduates are not life-cycle agents. Two potential explanations are that young workers are credit constrained or that they are averse to holding debt. We find suggestive evidence that debt reduces students' donations to the institution in the years after they graduate and increases the likelihood that a graduate will default on a pledge made during her senior year; we argue this result is more likely consistent with credit constraints than with debt aversion.

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Emergence of human factors -- Human factors and team dynamics in project management -- Key elements of team performance: content -- Key elements of team performance: process -- Key elements of team performance: behavior -- Secrets of managing the three key elements -- Key stages of team development -- Moving the team forward: facilitation techniques -- Personal space -- Team conflicts -- How conflicts affect personal space -- Expanding your space -- Managing good and bad behaviors -- Raising your game -- Those who break through will never go back -- Hearts and minds of human factors -- Personal leadership: putting it all together