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Deforestation, Production Intensity and Land Use under Insecure Property Rights
Amacher, Gregory S.; Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - 2004
management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and … to increase deforestation by increasing both land conversion to agriculture and illegal logging. Contrary to current …, and thus deforestation. Confiscation risk decreases timber supply from unsustainable forestry practices while the affect …
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The Effect of Forest Access on the Market for Fuelwood in India
Boskovic, Branko; Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; … - 2018
Fuelwood collection is often cited as the most important cause of deforestation in developing countries. Use of …
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The Conservation Multiplier
Harstad, Bård - 2020
Every government that controls an exhaustible resource must decide whether to exploit it or to conserve and thereby let the subsequent government decide whether to exploit or conserve. This paper develops a theory of this situation and shows when a small probability that some future government...
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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently....
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Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
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How Institutions Shape Land Deals: The Role of Corruption
Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2015
Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups...
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Land Trade and Development: A Market Design Approach
Bryan, Gharad; de Quidt, Jonathan; Wilkening, Tom; … - 2017
Small farms and fragmented plots are hallmarks of agriculture in less-developed countries, and there is evidence of high returns to land consolidation and reallocation. Complementarities, holdout and asymmetric information mean that private trade will be slow to reallocate land, and imply that...
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
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Land Grabbing and Ethnic Conflict
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2016
We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating...
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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua Evan; Callen, Michael - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241308