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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture
Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …
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Environmental Concern and the Business Cycle : The Chilling Effect of Recession
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2010
This paper uses three different sources of data to investigate the association between the business cycle--measured with unemployment rates--and environmental concern. Building on recent research that finds internet search terms to be useful predictors of health epidemics and economic activity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462414
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Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives : An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2010
Can simple government programs effectively promote voluntary initiatives to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? This paper provides an evaluation of how the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities program affects household decisions to voluntarily purchase "green" electricity, which is electricity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462539
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Public Goods Provision in the Presence of Heterogeneous Green Preferences
Jacobsen, Mark - 2014
We develop a model of the private provision of public goods in a world where agents face convex costs of provision. Consonant with prior empirical evidence, we introduce preference heterogeneity by allowing a subset of agents to exhibit pro-social behavior that reflects "green" preferences. We...
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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice
Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical...
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Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China
Chari, A.V. - 2017
This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land. We find the reform led to increases in land rental activity in rural households. Consistent with a model of transaction costs in land markets, our results indicate that the...
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Every Day is Earth Day : Evidence on the Long-term Impact of Environmental Activism
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2020
We explore the importance of activism in the context of Earth Day. We use variation in weather to study the long-term effects of the original Earth Day on attitudes, environmental outcomes, and children's health. Unusually bad weather in a community on April 22, 1970, is associated 10 to 20...
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Conservation : From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium
Kotchen, Matthew - 2007
This paper investigates how concern for the environment translates into predictable patterns of consumer behavior. Two types of behavior are considered. First, individuals who care about environmental quality may voluntarily restrain their consumption of goods and services that generate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464968
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Harnessing Policy Complementarities to Conserve Energy : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
List, John A. - 2017
The literature has shown the power of social norms to promote residential energy conservation, particularly among high usage users. This study uses a natural field experiment with nearly 200,000 US households to explore whether a financial rewards program can complement such approaches. We...
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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels
Delmas, Magali A. - 2014
In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...
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