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Industrial Land Discount in China : A Public Finance Perspective
He, Zhiguo; Nelson, Scott T.; Su, Yang; Zhang, Anthony Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
China's land market features a substantial industrial discount: industrial-zoned land is an order of magnitude cheaper than residential land. In contrast to explanations centered on subsidies to industry or promoting industry growth, we emphasize the importance of future tax revenues from the...
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Measuring Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture : An Equilibrium Perspective on Supply-Side Approaches
Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A popular approach for estimating climate change impacts on agriculture is to rely on supply-side reduced-form regressions. These methods, which include the Ricardian approach, focus on how farmers and agricultural land market react to changes in climatic conditions, under the implicit...
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An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
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Policies, Projections, and the Social Cost of Carbon : Results from the DICE-2023 Model
Barrage, Lint; Nordhaus, William D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The present study examines the assumptions, modeling structure, and preliminary results of DICE-2023, the revised Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy (DICE), updated to 2023. The revision contains major changes in the carbon and climate modules, the treatment of non-industrial...
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Local Carbon Policy
Cruz, José-Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study local carbon policy to address the consequences of climate change. Standard analysis suggests that the social cost of carbon determines optimal carbon policy. We start by using the spatial integrated assessment model in Cruz and Rossi-Hansberg (2021) to measure the local social monetary...
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Adapting to Flood Risk : Evidence from a Panel of Global Cities
Gandhi, Sahil; Kahn, Matthew E.; Kochhar, Rajat; Lall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Urban flooding poses danger to people and places. People can adapt to this risk by moving to safer areas or by investing in private self-protection. Places can offset some of the risk through urban planning and infrastructure investment. By constructing a global city data set that covers the...
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The Changing Nature of Pollution, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the United States
Colmer, Jonathan; Qin, Suvy; Voorheis, John; Walker, W. Reed - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
particulate (PM2.5) exposure to study the evolution of the Black-White pollution exposure gap over the past 40 years. In doing so …-preserving compression in the overall pollution distribution and (2) changes that stem from a reordering of Black and White households within … the pollution distribution. We find a significant narrowing of the Black-White PM2.5 exposure gap over this time period …
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Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?
Molitor, David; White, Corey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
pollution, drinking water pollution, and extreme temperatures--and the response to those exposures differ across urban and rural …, we present new evidence on urban-rural differences in air quality and population sensitivity to air pollution, leveraging …
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The Impact of Local Residential Land Use Restrictions on Land Values Across and Within Single Family Housing Markets
Gyourko, Joseph E.; Krimmel, Jacob - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We provide estimates of the impact of restrictive residential land use environments on the price of land across major American housing markets. Using micro data on vacant land purchased to develop single family housing, we implement a new empirical strategy for estimating so-called 'zoning...
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Large Scale Institutional Changes : Land Demarcation Within the British Empire
Libecap, Gary D. - 2010
This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation practices within the British Empire during the 17th through 19th Centuries. The advantages of systematic, coordinated demarcation, such as with the rectangular survey, relative...
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