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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size

Foster, Andrew D. - 2017

scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …

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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime

Das, Satadru - 2016

India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …

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Contracting for Impure Public Goods : Carbon Offsets and Additionality

Mason, Charles F. - 2014

carbon offsets to mitigate climate change. We analyze optimal contracts for forest carbon, an important offset category. A … 50 million acre increase in forest area, annual government expenditures with optimal contracts are found to be about $4 …

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Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality : Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires

Jayachandran, Seema - 2013

Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring deaths from quot;missing childrenquot;...

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Financing Outdoor Recreation

Banzhaf, H. Spencer; Smith, V. Kerry - 2022

The National Park Service and other agencies have argued that our recreation lands face a crisis of deferred maintenance. This paper evaluates two proposals for funding public lands, increasing gate fees and taxing recreational gear. It analyzes the joint welfare effects of such taxes and the...

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Federal Lands, Opportunity Costs, and Bureaucratic Management

Libecap, Gary D. - 2018

land largely is managed by the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, staffed by unelected, career civil …

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Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social dialogue institutions to help determine economic outcomes, particularly in the labor market, whereas the US relies more on market forces. The theory of competitive markets provides...

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Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations : the Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-Per-Mile Limits

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2009

Fourteen U.S. states recently pledged to adopt limits on greenhouse gases (GHGs) per mile of light-duty automobiles. Previous analyses predicted this action would significantly reduce emissions from new cars in these states, but ignored possible offsetting emissions increases from policy-induced...

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Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2010

There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II. These fluctuations in travel around the robust, long term upward trend are the focus of this paper. We first identify those fluctuations in the raw data and then try to explain the...

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The American Invasion of Europe : The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

Dupont, Brandon - 2010

Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …

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