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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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A Spatial Analysis of the Role of Residential Real Estate Investment in the Economic Development of the Northeast Region of the United States
Jayaraman, Praveena; Lacombe, Donald; Gebremedhin, Tesfa - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Spatial dependence is an important factor in regional economic growth analysis, especially in terms of population, employment, and per capita income. This paper employs spatial econometric techniques and U.S. Census Bureau county-level data for the period of 1980-2010 to identify and estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916232
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Obesity in Urban Food Markets: Evidence from Geo-referenced Micro Data
Chen, Susan E.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Snyder, Samantha D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
This paper provides quantitative estimates of the effect of proximity to fast food restaurants and grocery stores on obesity in urban food markets. Our empirical model combined georeferenced micro data on access to fast food restaurants and grocery stores with data about salient personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979695
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Social Networks and New Product Choice
Richards, Timothy J.; Allender, William J.; Hamilton, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Inuential individuals in a social network environment are important in shaping preferences for new products. In this study, we adopt an incentive compatible choice-based conjoint analysis approach to generate data on the introduction of a new ice cream product. We use spatial econometric methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011070120
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Spatial Econometric Approaches to Estimating Hedonic Property Value Models
Wang, Li; Ready, Richard C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005
The inclusion of spatial correlation of house price in hedonic pricing model may produce better marginal implicit price estimate(s) of the environmental variable(s) of interest. Most applications where a spatial econometric model is applied to the estimation of a hedonic property value model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005522343
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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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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
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From Access to Income : Regional and Ethnic Inequality in Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This study investigates regional and ethnic inequality in Indonesia from five dimensions : access to education and health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first comprehensive study that looks at ethnic inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363649