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Bridging vs. Bonding Social Capital and the Management of Common Pool Resources

Baylis, Kathy - 2013

Social capital can facilitate community governance, but not all social capital is alike. We distinguish bonding social capital (within a village) from bridging social capital (between villages), and we compare their effects on the management of a common pool resource. We develop a theoretical...

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Innovation-Led Transitions in Energy Supply

Lemoine, Derek - 2017

I generalize a benchmark model of directed technical change in order to reconcile it with the historical experience of energy transitions. I show that the economy becomes increasingly locked-in to the dominant sector when machines and energy resources are substitutes, but a transition away from...

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Fullerton, Don - 2002

Because of difficulties measuring pollution, many prior papers suggest a subsidy to some observable method of reducing pollution. We take three papers from the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management as examples, and we extend them to make an additional important point. In each case,...

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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity : Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia

Alesina, Alberto - 2014

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic … political economy of deforestation. They are consistent with the literature on (under) provision of public goods and social … decentralisation can reduce deforestation by delegating powers to more homogeneous communities …

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Time Preference and the Great Depression : Evidence from Firewood Prices in Portland, Oregon

Muller, Nicholas Z. - 2019

The present study gathers prices for firewood and estimates the premium paid for dry fuel, relative to green wood, on a monthly basis from 1922 to 1935. This premium conveys consumers' willingness-to-pay for a good available for immediate consumption relative to the same good ready for use after...

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Headwinds and Tailwinds : Implications of Inefficient Retail Energy Pricing for Energy Substitution

Borenstein, Severin; Bushnell, James B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Electrification of transportation and buildings to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires massive switching from natural gas and refined petroleum products. All three end-use energy sources are mispriced due in part to the unpriced pollution they emit. Natural gas and electricity...

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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Cesur, Resul - 2016

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...

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Understanding Rural Households' Time Use in a Developing Setting : Validating a Low-Cost Time Use Module

Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home production. However, traditional time use data collection methods are time-consuming, expensive and susceptible to significant attrition....

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Rationing the Commons

Ryan, Nicholas - 2020

shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find …

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Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation

Anderson, James E. - 2008

-country policy modeling. An application to India shows that the standard atheoretic method of aggregation overstates India's real …

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