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Coasean Approaches to Ending Overfishing : Bigeye Tuna Conservation in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
Ovando, Daniel; Libecap, Gary; Millage, Katherine; … - 2022
existing stalemates in this and other fisheries, consideration of Coasean-style approaches is warranted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093797
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Efficiency Advantages of Grandfathering in Rights-Based Fisheries Management
Anderson, Terry L. - 2010
We show that grandfathering fishing rights to local users or recognizing first possessions is more dynamically efficient than auctions of such rights. It is often argued that auctions allocate rights to the highest-valued users and thereby maximize resource rents. We counter that rents are not...
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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica C1774
Burnard, Trevor - 2017
This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony had extremely high living costs, which rose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946034
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The National Rise in Residential Segregation
Logan, Trevon - 2015
This paper introduces a new measure of residential segregation based on individual-level data. We exploit complete census manuscript files to derive a measure of segregation based upon the racial similarity of next-door neighbors. Our measure allows us to analyze segregation consistently and...
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Latin American Inequality : Colonial Origins, Commodity Booms, or a Missed 20th Century Leveling?
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy have held the pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, and that it's the Iberian colonists' fault. Thus, modern analysts see today a more unequal Latin America...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029021
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The Valuation of Fisheries Rights : A Real Options Approach
Pizarro, Jose - 2018
Fisheries. The model includes two sources of uncertainty: the resource biomass and the price of fish, and it can be used by … fisheries to optimally adapt their harvesting strategy to changing conditions in these stochastic variables. The model also … features realistic operational cash flows and fisheries can shutdown and reopen operations. Using publicly available data on …
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Why Does the Average Price of Tuna Fall During Lent?
Nevo, Aviv; Hatzitaskos, Kostis - 2021
For many products the average price paid by consumers falls during periods of high demand. We use information from a large supermarket chain to decompose the decrease in the average price into a substitution effect, due to an increase in the share of cheaper products, and a price reduction...
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Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present
Collins, William J. - 2011
We present estimates of home ownership for African-American and white households from 1870 to 2007. The estimates pertain to a sample of households headed by adult men participating in the labor force but the substantive findings are unchanged if the analysis is extended to all households. Over...
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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
Costa, Dora L. - 2011
The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124538