This study evaluates the effects of two exogenous interventions targeting individuals with both pecuniary and nonpecuniary incentives, increasing the moral and monetary costs of residential water use. The first intervention consisted of a social information campaign appealing to norm-based...

Quantifying drought’s economic impacts has been key for decision-making to build future strategies and improve the development and implementation of proactive plans. However, climate change is changing drought frequency, intensity, and durability. These changes imply modifications of their...

Few works have examined the relationship between maternal participation in the labor force and the availability of child care in developing countries. Existing papers also tend to rely on relatively simplistic, correlative analysis of the data rather than modeling the joint decision to invest in...

The inclusion of non-monetary payments may be appropriate in developing countries. In this paper, we depart from this previous literature by adopting a non-excluding approach between two payment alternatives, which we claim is appropriate in urban, middle-or high-income settings. We adopt two...

We explore whether providing ocean acidification (OA) information affects consumers’ preferences for seafood products in a middle-income country in the southern hemisphere. Seafood attributes include shell size and appearance, meat color, texture, taste, nutritional composition, product...

Research on innovation strategy, which focuses on what type of innovation that firms decide to implement, has primarily focused on dichotomic (yes or no) options and is mostly based on the determinants of technological (product and process) innovations. This paper extends the study of innovation...

This research aims to find the determinants of participation on social organizations in Chile through a social capital approach, as well as to evaluate the existence of a positive effect between participation and household welfare. In the case of economic and local organizations several...

This research aims to find the determinants of participation on social organizations in Chile through a social capital approach, as well as to evaluate the existence of a positive effect between participation and household welfare. In the case of economic and local organizations several...