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Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics : opportunities and challenges

Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices

Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022

We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...

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Payment for ecosystem services from forests

Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014

Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity, and the presence of vegetation key to maintaining...

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Institutions, culture, and wetland values

Mayula Chaikumbung; Doucouliagos, Chris; Scarborough, Helen - 2018

Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We assess three dimensions of institutional quality: economic...

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Why do relatively few economists work on climate change? : a survey

Pestel, Nico; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

Climate change is sometimes viewed as the most serious problem facing modern society. The science behind anthropogenic global warming has been understood for more than half a century. Yet relatively few economists work on topics related to climate change. What explains this (apparent) lack of...

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Altruism, human capital and environmental preservation in a globalized economy

Bouché, Stéphane; Modesto, Leonor - 2024

This paper analyzes the impact of trade openness on education and environmental preservation choices in a two country model where both countries only differ in their shares of skilled workers. Parents may invest in their children's education increasing their probability to become skilled and in...

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Greenhouse gas mitigation and price-driven growth in a Solow-Swan economy with an environmental limit

Burda, Michael C.; Zessner-Spitzenberg, Leopold - 2024

The existence of an environmental limit in the Solow-Swan economy changes the nature of economic growth, but does not preclude it. When atmospheric greenhouse gases reach a predetermined absolute threshold, further growth requires a permanently expanding, resource-intensive mitigation effort. If...

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Human capital and climate change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...

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(In)equality and (in)justice

Jasso, Guillermina - 2016

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …

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What can DNA exonerations tell us about racial differences in wrongful conviction rates?

Bjerk, David; Helland, Eric - 2018

We examine the extent to which DNA exonerations can reveal whether wrongful conviction rates differ across races. We show that under a wide-range of assumptions regarding possible explicit or implicit racial biases in the DNA exoneration process (including no bias), our results suggest the...

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