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Is Weather Really Additive in Agricultural Production? Implications for Climate Change Impacts
Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel - 2013
Recent reduced-form econometric models of climate change impacts on agriculture assume climate is additive. This is …
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On the effects of linking voluntary cap-and-trade systems for CO2 emissions
Weitzman, Martin L.; Holtsmark, Bjart - 2018
Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
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Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2010
Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 emissions. We found that a large majority of the respondents in all three...
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Wealth and Time Preference in Rural Ethiopia
Yesuf, Mahmud; Bluffstone, Randall - 2008
This study measured the discount rates of a sample of 262 farm households in the Ethiopian highlands, using a time preference experiment with real payoffs. In general, the median discount rate was very high—more than double the interest rate on the outstanding debt—and varied systematically...
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Coping with Fuelwood Scarcity: Household Responses in Rural Ethiopia
Damte, Abebe; Koch, Steven F.; Mekonnen, Alemu - 2012
This study uses survey data from randomly selected rural households in Ethiopia to examine the coping mechanisms employed by rural households to deal with fuelwood scarcity. The determinants of collecting other biomass energy sources were also examined. The results of the empirical analysis show...
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Climate Change, Risk and Grain Production in China
Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua; Grün, Carola - 2011
This paper employs the production function-based method proposed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979) to explicitly analyze production risk in the context of Chinese grain farming and climate change, and test for potential endogeneity of climate factors in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate...
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The Economic Impact of Weather Variability on China’s Rice Sector
Chen, Shuai; Chen, Xiaoguang; Xu, Jintao - 2014
This paper provides the first county-level analysis of the impacts of weather variability on rice yield in China, by compiling a unique panel on irrigated single-season rice and daily weather data. We found that temperature and solar radiation had statistically significant impacts on rice yield...
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Crop-Livestock Inter-linkages and Climate Change Implications for Ethiopia’s Agriculture: A Ricardian Approach
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe; Mekonnen, Alemu; Deribe, Rahel; … - 2013
Ethiopia, have emphasized only crop agriculture and disregarded the role of livestock. In this research, we analyze climate … Ricardian approach, estimating three modified versions of the Ricardian model. Results show that warmer temperature is … beneficial to livestock agriculture, while it is harmful to the Ethiopian economy from the crop agriculture point of view …
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Climate Change and the Ethiopian Economy: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe; Stage, Jesper; Mekonnen, Alemu; … - 2011
general equilibrium model. The impacts on agriculture are based on results from a Ricardian model where current (and future …This paper analyses the economic impacts of climate change on Ethiopia’s agriculture using a countrywide computable …
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Altruist talk may (also) be cheap: Revealed versus stated altruism as a predictor in stated preference studies
Iversen, Endre Kildal; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Mitani, Yohei - 2021
Altruistic preferences of various forms may cause difficulties in welfare economics. In the valuation of public goods, such preferences are believed to help explain the substantial non-use values found in many stated preference (SP) valuation surveys. However, studies analysing the effect of...
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