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Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil
Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Tenancy has been a means for labor to advance their socio-economic condition in agriculture yet in Brazil and Latin America, tenancy rates are low compared to the U.S. and the OECD countries. We test for the importance of insecure property rights in Brazil on the reluctance of landowners to rent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631684
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The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions
Libecap, Gary D.; Lueck, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper examines the origins and economic effects of the two dominant land demarcation systems: metes and bounds (MB) and the rectangular system (RS). Under MB property is demarcated by its perimeter as indicated by natural features and human structures and linked to surveys within local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064830
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Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium
Rosenzweig, Mark; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We estimate the general-equilibrium labor market effects of a large-scale randomized intervention in which we designed … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796570
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The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations
Mansur, Erin T.; Olmstead, Sheila M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Rather than allowing water prices to reflect scarcity rents during periods of drought-induced excess demand, policy makers have mandated command-and-control approaches, like the curtailment of certain uses, primarily outdoor watering. Using unique panel data on residential end-uses of water, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774966
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Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation
Stavins, Robert Norman; Olmstead, Sheila M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
control regulations toward market-based policies in recent decades. We offer an analysis of the relative merits of market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248775
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Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures
Stavins, Robert Norman; Olmstead, Sheila; Hanemann, W. … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise-linear budget constraints imposed by increasing-block pricing. We develop a mathematical expression for the unconditional price elasticity of demand under increasing-block prices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088831
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD
Alston, Lee J.; Andersson, Krister - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
could reduce the full set of transaction costs and thereby improve the efficiency of the market-based approach for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836719
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Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions
Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Leino, Jessica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
In many societies, social norms create common property rights in natural resources, limiting incentives for private … impacts of alternative water property rights norms and institutions, including common property, freehold private property, and … which the demand for health is highly income elastic. Simulations suggest that, at current income levels, private property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034335
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Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve
Levinson, Arik; Harbaugh, William; Wilson, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
This paper uses an updated and revised panel data set on ambient air pollution in cities world-wide to examine the robustness of the evidence for the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between national income and pollution. We test the sensitivity of the pollution-income relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050336
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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