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Envirodevonomics : A Research Agenda for a Young Field
Greenstone, Michael - 2013
Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459234
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Risk and Return in Environmental Economics
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2012
I examine the risk/return tradeoff for environmental investments, and its implications for policy choice. Consider a policy to reduce carbon emissions. To what extent does the value of such a policy depend on the expected future damages from global warming versus uncertainty over those damages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460398
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Valuing ecosystem services in general equilibrium
Carbone, Jared C. - 2010
We explore the consequences of treating the multiple, non-market benefits associated with improvements in ecosystem … to pay measures of use-based ecosystem services are impacted by the changes in demand for complementary market goods …. Demand for these goods shifts due to the introduction of pollution regulations that deliver improvements in ecosystem …
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Agro-Ecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks
Chavas, Jean-Paul - 2016
This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamic response to shocks, relying on a threshold quantile autoregression (TQAR) model as a flexible representation of stochastic dynamics. The TQAR model can identify zones of stability/instability and characterize resilience and traps. Resilience means...
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Cash for Carbon : A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation
Jayachandran, Seema - 2016
This paper evaluates a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in western Uganda that offered forest …
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Redesigning Payments for Ecosystem Services to Increase Cost-Effectiveness
Izquierdo-Tort, Santiago; Jayachandran, Seema; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are a widely used approach for forest conservation through which people are paid …
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Conditional Cash Transfers for Education
García, Sandra; Saavedra, Juan E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This chapter reviews the extensive literature to date on CCTs for education. Section 2 provides background on the origins and expansion of CCTs globally, and describes basic design features and variation in characteristics across programs. Section 3 presents a theory of change and an economic...
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The Value of Statistical Life : A Meta-analysis of Meta-analyses
Banzhaf, H. Spencer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Value of Statistical Life (VSL) is arguably the most important number in benefit-cost analyses of environmental, health, and transportation policies. However, agencies have used a wide range of VSL values. One reason may be the embarrassment of riches when it comes to VSL studies. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616632
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Meta-Analysis for Medical Decisions
Manski, Charles F. - 2019
Statisticians have proposed meta-analysis to combine the findings of multiple studies of health risks or treatment response. The standard practice is to compute a weighted-average of the estimates. Yet it is not clear how to interpret a weighted average of estimates reported in disparate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479460
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The Impressive Effects of Tutoring on PreK-12 Learning : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence
Nickow, Andre - 2020
Tutoring--defined here as one-on-one or small-group instructional programming by teachers, paraprofessionals, volunteers, or parents--is one of the most versatile and potentially transformative educational tools in use today. Within the past decade, dozens of preK-12 tutoring experiments have...
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