It is usual to estimate willingness-to-pay in discrete choice models through Logit models -or their expanded versions. Nevertheless, these models have very restrictive distributional assumptions. This paper is intended to examine the above-mentioned issue and to propose an alternative estimation...

This paper studies quality of life for urban neighborhoods and their determinants in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). First, hedonic price regressions for residential prices are augmented with neighborhood characteristics, based on a real estate database with indicators on each...

Literature has long argued that the nation is a community, either “imagined”, ”invented”, or of “sentiment”. The existence of such a “national community” has strongly relied upon the assumption that members share –or feel/believe that they share-- something/s in common. It...

This document was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the V Hemispheric Meeting celebrated November 30th, 2006.

In the past 30 years, the historiography of colonial Pampean agriculture showed a radical change. The “Bonaerense Campaign”, which was thought extensively devoted to cattle, was recently named one of the most important grain-producing regions of the Spanish Empire. This new hermeneutics of...

El empleo de agrotóxicos para el control de plagas constituye uno de los problemas socio-ambientales más importantes en la horticultura llevada a cabo en la provincia de Buenos Aires. Las áreas hortícolas estudiadas muestran que el modo de utilización de los plaguicidas determina la...

Así las cosas, los constituyentes, al incorporar el Art. 41 se manifestaron respecto de las competencias que, en materia ambiental, le corresponde a cada jurisdicción. En el tercer párrafo del artículo citado y según las palabras de los constituyentes, “...Corresponde a la Nación dictar...

Todos los días, los residuos generados por los habitantes de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y del conurbano, se desechan en rellenos sanitarios y basurales a cielo abierto. El aumento de la densidad de población, delinea la necesidad de encontrar otras prácticas de disposición de los residuos....

This presentation discusses the IDB-RES project conducted in the neighborhood of Buenos Aires. This project was an opportunity to carry out in-depth studies throughout the region and contained true positive externalities including: interaction among research teams, with academic advisors and...