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Deforestation in the Himalayas: Myths and Reality

Baland, Jean Marie; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2014

Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil … frequently dominated by widely held beliefs concerning the extent of deforestation (that it is large and growing over time), and … its impacts on local livelihoods (that these are adverse and large). Views concerning determinants of deforestation …

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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 - eSocialSciences - 2013

A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A …

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Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes

Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - CESifo - 2015

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal …’s presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation can be legal or illegal in the model: each district decides how much to …

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The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages

Harstad, Bård - CESifo - 2013

A “conservation good” (such as a tropical forest) is owned by a seller who is tempted to consume (or cut), but a buyer benefits more from conservation. The seller does conserve if the buyer is expected to buy, but the buyer is unwilling to pay as long as the seller conserves. This...

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Unbelievable but True â€” Improved Cook-stoves are not Helpful in Reducing Firewood Demand in Nepal

Nepal, Mani; Nepal, Apsara; Grimsrud, Kristine - eSocialSciences - 2011

This paper analyzes the effect of different types of cook-stoves on firewood demand at the household level. Nationally representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working Paper No. 51 - 10].

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Pass-through of CO2 Emission Costs to Hourly Electricity Prices in Germany

Hintermann, Beat - CESifo - 2014

I estimate the level of emissions cost pass-through to hourly wholesale electricity prices in Germany, based on spot market data. I control for contemporaneous shocks to demand and supply by constructing a detailed supply curve for fossil generation, and intersecting it with residual demand for...

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How Much Carbon Pricing is in Countries' Own Interests? The Critical Role of Co-Benefits

Parry, Ian; Veung, Chandara; Heine, Dirk - CESifo - 2014

This paper calculates, for the top twenty emitting countries, how much pricing of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is in their own national interests due to domestic co-benefits. On average, nationally efficient prices are substantial, $57.5 per ton of CO2 (for year 2010), reflecting primarily...

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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015

Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the effects of public transit strikes on urban...

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Valuation of Urban Air Pollution: A Case Study of Kanpur City in India

Gupta, Usha - eSocialSciences - 2006

This study estimates the monetary benefits to individuals from health damages avoided as a result on reductions in air pollution in the urban industrial city of Kanpur in India. A notable feature of this study is that it uses data from weekly health-diaries collected for three seasons. For...

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Morbidity Costs of Vehicular Air Pollution: Examining Dhaka City in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Tanzir; Imran, Mohammad - eSocialSciences - 2010

This study estimates the morbidity costs of reduction in air pollution in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, using the Cost-of-Illness (COI) approach. COI is defined as the sum of lost earnings due to workdays lost or restricted activity days and the mitigation expenditure borne due to illness....

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