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The National Flood Insurance Program Underwater: Censored Regressions on Flood Insurance Claims
Hungerford, Ashley; Ghosh, Sujit; Barry, Goodwin - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880876
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Risk Externalities, Wildfire Hazard, and Private Investment to Mitigate Wildfire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Taylor, Michael H.; Christman, Laine; Rollins, Kimberly - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This is Selected Paper #2846. The title of this paper at the time the abstract was submitted was "Private Incentives for Investments to Mitigate Wildfire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface"
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880941
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VALUING ACCESS TO MULTIPLE WATER SUPPLY SOURCES IN IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE WITH A HEDONIC PRICING MODEL
Mukherjee, Monobina; Schwabe, Kurt A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Increasing aridity, more frequent and intense drought, and greater degrees of water scarcity create unique challenges for agriculture. In response to these challenges, which often manifest themselves in the form of lower and more variable surface water supplies as well as depleted and degraded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881143
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A Spatiotemporal Fixed Effects Estimation of U.S. State-Level Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Burnett, J. Wesley; Bergstrom, John C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
One of the major shortcommings of past environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) studies is that the spatiotemporal aspects within the data have largely been ignored. By ignoring the spatial aspect of pollution emissions past estimates of the EKC implicitly assume that a region’s emissions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021052
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Economies of Scale in Costs of Land Acquisition for Nature Conservation
Cho, Seong-Hoon; Kim, Taeyoung; Larson, Eric R.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
Market failure results in more human conversion of ecosystems for development and other uses than likely socially desirable. In response, many government agencies and nonprofits focus on conservation, often acquiring land rights to establish protected areas on which further conversion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069056
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The Specific Allocation Fund (DAK) : Mechanism and Uses
Usman, Syaikhu; Mawardi, M. Sulton; Poesoro, Adri; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This study aims to analyze the management of the Specific Allocation Fund (DAK). The three largest DAK-recipient sectors are the focus of the study : education, health, and roads infrastructure. The study sample areas are four districts. This paper was compiled based on the results of in-depth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363884
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Province-level Convergence of China CO2 Emission Intensity
Zhao, Xueting; Burnett, J. Wesley; Lacombe, Donald J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
This study offers a unique contribution to the literature by investigating the convergence of province-level carbon … panel data model to evaluate an empirically testable hypothesis of convergence among provinces. Our results suggest that: (1 …) CO2 emission intensities are converging across provinces in China; (2) the rate of convergence is higher with the dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068530
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Convergence in nutrient intakes and examination of nutrition-income elasticities in sub Saharan Africa: Implications on Health and welfare
Ogundari, Kolawole - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
The objective of the study is twofold: first, to investigate whether a nutrition convergence process exists in sub … covering 1975-2009 cum balanced panel of 1505 observations was employed for the analysis. The convergence hypothesis is … Curve. However, the empirical results show that the null hypothesis of no nutrition convergence is strongly rejected, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068606
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Channels of Interprovincial Consumption Risk Sharing in the People’s Republic of China
Du, Julan; He, Qing; Rui, Oliver M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
This paper analyzes consumption risk sharing among provinces in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) during 1980–2007. The analysis finds that 9.4% of shocks to gross provincial product are smoothed by the interprovincial fiscal transfer system. This system also cushions a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651629
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Channels of Interprovincial Consumption Risk Sharing in the People’s Republic of China
Du, Julan; He, Qing; Rui, Oliver M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
This paper analyzes consumption risk sharing among provinces in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) during 1980–2007. The analysis finds that 9.4% of shocks to gross provincial product are smoothed by the interprovincial fiscal transfer system. This system also cushions a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651636