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Forest fires : why the large year-to-year variation in forests burned?
Apt, Jay; Epple, Dennis N.; Sowell, Fallaw - 2023
Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific … understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area … first unified treatment of climatic factors and human activities that affect forest area burned. …
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Optimal forest management when logging damages and costs differ between logging practices
Indrajaya, Yonky; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ierland, Ekko C. van - 2014
on a multi-age, multi-species forest in East-Kalimantan to study optimal harvest regimes for Conventional Logging (CL … under sustainable forest management (RIL). According to our detailed data, RIL has higher fixed costs but lower variable …
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Private capital, public goods : forest plantations' investment in local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B.; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017
With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny … by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure … private forest plantations and households in villages adjacent to a state-owned plantation. We use survey data from 338 …
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Dynamic causal forests, with an application to payroll tax incidence in Norway
Gavrilova, Evelina; Langørgen, Audun; Zoutman, Floris T. - 2023
panel data in a setting with many covariates. Our method, which we name the dynamic causal forest (DCF) method, extends the … causal-forest method of Wager and Athey (2018) by allowing for the estimation of dynamic treatment effects in a difference …
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Measuring inflation expectations in interwar Britain
Lennard, Jason; Meinecke, Finn; Solomou, Solomos - 2021
What caused the recovery from the British Great Depression? A leading explanation - the "expectations channel" - suggests that a shift in expected inflation lowered real interest rates and stimulated consumption and investment. However, few studies have measured, or tested the economic...
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Monthly GDP estimates for inter-war Berlin
Mitchell, James; Solomou, Solomos; Weale, Martin - 2011
We derive monthly and quarterly series of UK GDP for the inter-war period from a set of monthly indicators that were constructed by The Economist at the time. The monthly information is complemented with data for quarterly industrial production, allowing us to employ mixed-frequency methods to...
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Brain drain in the age of mass migration : does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
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Sovereign bonds since Waterloo
Meyer, Josefin; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2019
This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in equity...
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Did caselaw foster England's economic development during the industrial revolution? : data and evidence
Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2022
We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...
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From status to contract? : a macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture
Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2024
Most development models emphasize a growth in the scope of individual choice as the law becomes impartial, relevant to all. An early expression of this conceptualization appeared in the 19th century, when Henry Maine coined his celebrated dictum that progressive societies move from status to...
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