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Where There's Smoking, There's Fire : the Effects of Smoking Policies on the Incidence of Fires in the United States
Markowitz, Sara - 2010
Fires and burns are among the leading causes of unintentional death in the U.S. Most of these deaths occur in residences, and cigarettes are a primary cause. In this paper, I explore the relationship between smoking, cigarette policies, and fires. As fewer people smoke, there are less...
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Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters
Baylis, Patrick - 2019
This study measures the degree to which large public expenditures on wildfire protection subsidize development in harm …
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Creative Destruction : Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
Hornbeck, Richard; Keniston, Daniel - 2021
Historical city growth, in the United States and worldwide, has required remarkable transformation of outdated durable buildings. Private land-use decisions may generate inefficiencies, however, due to externalities and various rigidities. This paper analyzes new plot-level data in the aftermath...
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W.U.I. On Fire : Risk, Salience & Housing Demand
McCoy, Shawn - 2015
perceptions among potential sellers and buyers of properties located in the proximity of large wildfire events. Our empirical … which incorporates measures of both proximity and burn scar views as well as a properties latent wildfire risk. Our analysis … latent risk for wildfire …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031976
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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;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753594
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The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the Us
Burke, Marshall; Driscoll, Anne; Xue, Jenny; Heft-Neal, Sam - 2021
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires … burden of wildfire in the US. We estimate that nearly 50 million homes are currently in the wildland-urban interface in the …-change-induced wildfire smoke could approach projected overall increases in temperature-related mortality from climate change. We draw lessons …
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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2019
The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863692
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Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations
Ludwig, Jens - 2011
Randomized controlled trials are increasingly used to evaluate policies. How can we make these experiments as useful as possible for policy purposes? We argue greater use should be made of experiments that identify behavioral mechanisms that are central to clearly specified policy questions,...
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The Role of Theory in Field Experiments
Card, David - 2014
We propose a new classification of experiments that captures the extent to which the experimental design and analysis are linked to economic theory. We then use this system to classify all published field experiments in the five top economics journals from 1975 to 2010. We find that the vast...
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Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Experimental Economics
List, John A. - 2016
Empiricism in the sciences allows us to test theories, formulate optimal policies, and learn how the world works. In this manner, it is critical that our empirical work provides accurate conclusions about underlying data patterns. False positives represent an especially important problem, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001219