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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel

Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010. Results from preceding cross-sectional analyses are found to be robust: (a) rising consumptions for all but the top decile were associated with increased...

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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

Burgess, Robin; Hansen, Matthew; Olken, Benjamin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world … incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to combating tropical deforestation. We … with increased deforestation and with lower prices in local wood markets, consistent with a model of Cournot competition …

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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...

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The growth of cities

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of answers. Within an integrated framework, this chapter reviews key theories with implications for urban growth. It then...

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Urban land use

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business centres, various dimensions of heterogeneity, and durable housing. After presenting the theory and distilling its...

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Decomposing the Growth in Residential Land in the United States

Overman, Henry G; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper decomposes the growth in land occupied by residences in the United States to give the relative contributions of changing demographics versus increases in the land area used by individual households. Between 1976 and 1992 the amount of residential land in the United States grew 47.5%...

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