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How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action : Evidence from California’s Groundwater

Ayres, Andrew B. - 2017

groundwater basins using a new dataset to identify factors that influence the adoption of extraction controls. In 309 basins … severely overdrafted. Meanwhile, users in 31 basins have defined groundwater property rights, the most complete solution. We …

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Urban Forests : Environmental Health Values and Risks

Xing, Jianwei; Hu, Zhiren; Xia, Fan; Xu, Jintao; Zou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Forests accompany the cities we build. There are an estimated 5.5 billion urban trees in the United States. Globally, about 25 percent of urban land is covered by tree canopy. This study examines urban forests as a policy tool for air pollution mitigation. We study an afforestation program in...

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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice

Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as … consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical estimates of how farmers respond to changes in groundwater costs … variation in the price of electricity, a key input into groundwater extraction, we find that farmers are very price responsive …

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Do Property Rights Alleviate the Problem of the Commons? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights

Ayres, Andrew B. - 2019

their effectiveness remains elusive. We develop a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial …

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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-run and Long-run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer

Hornbeck, Richard - 2012

agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers' access to groundwater. Comparing counties over the Ogallala with …

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The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer : Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Climate

Hornbeck, Richard - 2011

, technological improvements made groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer available for irrigation. Comparing counties over the Ogallala … with nearby similar counties, groundwater access increased irrigation intensity and initially reduced the impact of …

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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission

de Figueiredo, John M. - 2000

lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the...

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Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

Alesina, Alberto - 1999

This paper studies both theoretically and empirically the determinants of group formation and of the degree of participation when the population is heterogeneous, both in terms of income and race or ethnicity. We are especially interested in whether and how much the degree of heterogeneity in...

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Group Corruption via Sequential Bargaining in a Hierarchical Organization

Kung, Fan-chin; Wang, Ping; Wen, Quan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a framework of group corruption via back-door negotiations between an outside initiator and an authority of decision-makers in a hierarchical organization. We examine the role played by the architecture of a multi-tier authority and determine under such a structure how bargaining...

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Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem

Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Guiteras, Raymond; Levinsohn, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Each person's sanitation behavior can affect the health of neighbors. We report on a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 19,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we randomized (1) either...

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