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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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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Burgess, Robin - 2011
Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world … incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to understanding tropical deforestation … associated with increased deforestation and with lower prices in local wood markets, consistent with a model of Cournot …
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The Economics of Tropical Deforestation
Balboni, Clare A.; Berman, Aaron; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Two factors have elevated recent academic and policy interest in tropical deforestation: first, the realization that it … forest loss at a fine spatial resolution across the globe. We then develop a simple benchmark model of deforestation based on … classic models of natural resource extraction. Extending this approach to incorporate features that characterize deforestation …
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Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields : The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
Schlenker, Wolfram - 2008
The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464847
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Food Policy in a Warming World
Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576567
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What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions
Lubowski, Ruben N. - 2007
Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global climate change, wildlife, and other policy issues. We use an econometric model to identify factors driving land-use change in the United States between 1982 and 1997. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465075
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334496
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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 … which received the program for two years. The PES program reduced deforestation and forest degradation: Tree cover, measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456299
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The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin - 2017
We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...
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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties
Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with the British Crown and other European powers. These treaties regularly formed the colonial legal basis for access to Indigenous lands. However, treaties were not negotiated...
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