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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Flood Mitigation Policies in the U.S.

Fan, Qin; Davlasheridze, Meri - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

We employ a two-stage random utility model (RUM) to estimate people’ marginal willingness to pay (WTP) for enhancing community-level floodplain management activities reflected in the National flood insurance program (NFIP)’s Community Rating System (CRS) program. CRS is a voluntary program,...

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Equilibrium Welfare Impacts of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments in the Los Angeles Area

Tra, Constant I. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2007

This study develops a discrete choice locational equilibrium model to evaluate the benefits of the air quality improvements that occurred in the Los Angeles area following the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). The discrete choice equilibrium approach accounts for the fact that air quality...

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Climate Change and Labor Markets in Rural Mexico: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather

Jessoe, Katrina; Manning, Dale; Taylor, J. Edward - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

.2-3% decrease in local employment and a 1-2% increase in domestic migration from rural to urban areas. These results provide an …

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Long-term variability of the temperature time series recorded in Lisbon

Santos, Joao; Leite, Solange - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 36 (2009) 3, pp. 323-337

As a case study for application in climate change studies, daily air temperature records in Lisbon are analysed by applying advanced statistical methodologies that take into account the dynamic nature of climate. A trend analysis based on two non-parametric tests (Spearman and Mann-Kendall)...

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Retiree Migration: Considerations of Amenity and Health Access Drivers

Karner, Anne M.; Dorfman, Jeffrey H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

the drivers of migration for retirees versus people still in the work force, one finds that the drivers for the two groups … migration decisions are decoupled from job market conditions. Retirees can indulge in specific tastes and preferences such as a … appear to consider both attributes, with natural amenities appearing more important drivers of migration decisions. …

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Migration, Household Composition, and Child Welfare in Rural Northeast Thailand

Cameron, Michael P.; Lim, Steven - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005

In many developing countries the composition of rural households is influenced by the migration of adult household …

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Evaluating productive and economic impacts of climate change variability on the farm sector of an irrigated Mediterranean area

Dono, Gabriele; Cortignani, Raffaele; Giraldo, Luca; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

Climate changes in agriculture act on various climate variables (precipitation, temperature, etc..) at different times of crop cycles. Many physical and technical relationships have to be represented even when analyzing a limited aspect of farm management. This work employs the net...

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The Climate Change and Economic Impacts of Food Waste in the United States

Venkat, Kumar - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 02 (2011) 4

This study analyzes the climate change and economic impacts of food waste in the United States. Using loss-adjusted national food availability data for 134 food commodities, it calculates the greenhouse gas emissions due to wasted food using life cycle assessment and the economic cost of the...

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Classical Decision Rules and Adaption to Climate Change

Clarke, Harry - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society …

One approach to rationalising policies for addressing potentially catastrophic climate change when such policies may prove unnecessary is to suppose the policies provide a form of social insurance even in the presence of pure uncertainty. Then, provided the policies are effective, such insurance...

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Climate change: A rational choice politics view

Brennan, Geoffrey - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 53 (2009) 3

Reduction in carbon dioxide emissions constitutes a global public good; and hence there will be strong incentives for countries to free ride in the provision of CO2 emission reductions. In the absence of more or less binding international agreements, we would expect carbon emissions to be...

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