poverty-environment hypothesis since household economic wealth is a significant and negative determinant of firewood …This paper discusses the determinants of firewood consumption in a poor township in rural northern China, with a … special focus on the relationship between households' economic wealth and firewood consumption. We find strong support for the …

An existence theorem for a bias of the mean in the presence of data dispersion is proved. The ultimate aims are to use … preferences, choices, decisions, (ir)rational behavior at data uncertainty, noises and experimental errors in experiments …

statistical data collection and data exchange from around 4'000 decentralized registers. Besides there are more than 2 …'000 administrative services delivered to Swiss citizens and businesses, of which hundreds could potentially use data from population … therefore in this paper we propose a conceptual framework to analyse data governance of these populations registers, with a …

This paper investigates whether inherited legacies such as legal origin allow of explaining deforestation in 110 … developed and developing countries. The hypothesis is that differences in deforestation between countries can be attributed to …

Although widely studied, deforestation remains a topical and typical issue. The relationship between economic … development and deforestation is still at stake. This paper presents a meta-analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) studies … for deforestation. Using 71 studies, offering 631 estimations, we shed light on why EKC results differ. We investigate the …

effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Second, a panel-data econometric analysis over the 1990-2010 period … financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. First, we develop a theoretical model emphasizing a substitution … confirms our findings. Consequently, a tighter monetary policy hastens deforestation. Third, we extend the theoretical model …

alleviation. At the same time, deforestation-related activities, like agricultural expansion, can be seen as relying on natural … between financial development, public spendings and deforestation. Are they substitute or complement? Our econometric analysis … shows that deforestation is positively correlated to access to credit and public spendings, which gives some evidence that …

In this paper we aim at theoretically grounding the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation … incomplete information about reference levels of deforestation as well as exogenous implementation and transaction costs, we … compare two types of contracts : a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation …

Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the … in two steps. First, we assumed that protected areas are created to stop the negative effects of deforestation on … creation of protected areas. Our results show (i) that deforestation activities of neighboring municipalities are complements …

seigniorage. Building on a simple theoretical model where governments target inflation and aim at reducing deforestation while … minimising a welfare loss function, we exhibit the potential substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues … and deforestation revenues, which is, as suggested by the theoretical model, even stronger if the endogenous character of …