This paper uses data from four successive Annual Housing Surveys, 1974 to 1977, to assess the degree to which households moving from rented to owner occupied housing responded to housing price inflation by purchasing smaller, more delapidated units in less choice locations. The data indicate...

How do we explain variations across nations in the incidence of political corruption? Recent theoretical work locates the causes for corruption in a combination of institutional conditions: monopoly power, little accountability, and wide discretion. This focus on the form of political...

Effective policies to halt deforestation depend critically on the forest context. This article uses a forest transition framework to discuss three forest contexts: remote (core) forest areas, frontier forests, and forest-agriculture mosaics. Just as the drivers and capabilities differ across...

Corporations now go “to the ends of the earth” to extract natural resources like oil and diamonds from the earth at the same time that farmers, investors, and development experts try to expand the supply of food, sometimes through large land acquisitions in remote regions. These two...