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Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of elephants
(2009-11-19)If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a burden, then they cannot be trusted to be its stewards. To assess their valuation of it, a CVM study was conducted for one CAMPFIRE district in Zimbabwe. ... -
Biomass Fuel Consumption and Dung Use as Manure - Evidence from Rul Households in the Amrahara Region of Ethiopia
(2009-11-19)Soil nutrient depletion is a critical problem, contributing to low agricultural productivity and the limited domestic food supply in sub-Saharan Africa. Fertilizer use in Ethiopia is one of the lowest in sub-Saharan ... -
Fairness Concerns in Environmental Economics - Do They Really Matter and If So How?
(2009-11-16)Are fairness concerns of relevance to environmental economics and, if so, are they sufficiently structured to improve analysis in this field? On both of these questions, we answer in the affirmative, arguing that people’s ... -
Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? -The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status
(2009-11-13)This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, ... -
Does experience eliminate the effect of a default option? - A field experiment on CO2-offsetting for air transport
(2009-10-23)Earlier research has shown that using a default option has a decisive effect on individuals’ choices. In many cases, however, the low proportion of subjects who switch from the pre-set default option might partly explained ... -
To Trade or Not to Trade: Firm-Level Analysis of Emissions Trading in Santiago, Chile
(2009-10-23)Whether tradable permits are appropriate for use in transition and developing economies—given special social and cultural circumstances, such as the lack of institutions and lack of expertise with market‐based policies—is ... -
Does age matter for the value of life? - Evidence from a choice experiment in rural Bangladesh
(2009-10-19)Using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh, this paper investigates people’s preferences regarding relative values of lives when it comes to different ages of the individuals being saved. By assuming that an ... -
Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement
(2009-10-19)Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in ... -
Gender and birth-order differences in time and risk preferences and decisions
(2009-10-05)We study how gender, birth order, and number of siblings are related to stated time and risk preferences and to real-life decisions. We use survey data covering about 2,300 individuals and find that time and risk preferences ... -
Earthquakes and Civil War
(2009-10-05)Natural disasters claim thousands of lives each year and can be a heavy burden for already vulnerable societies. Are natural disasters also a cause of violent con- flict? While most studies based on systematic empirical ... -
The Causal Effects of Ethnic Diversity: An Instrumental Variables Approach
(2009-10-05)Ethnic diversity is endogenous to economic development in the long run. Yet the standard approach in economic research is to treat ethnic diversity as an exogenous factor. By identifying instruments for ethnic diversity, ... -
Testing for a Unit Root in a Random Coefficient Panel Data Model
(2009-10-01)This paper proposes a new unit root test in the context of a random autoregressive coefficient panel data model, in which the null of a unit root corresponds to the joint restriction that the autoregressive coefficient ... -
Testing for Unit Roots in Panel Time Series Models with Multiple Breaks
(2009-09-29)This paper proposes two new unit root tests that are appropriate in the presence of an unknown number of structural breaks. One is based on a single time series and the other is based on a panel of multiple series. For ... -
The effect of risk, ambiguity, and coordination on farmers’ adaptation to climate change: A framed field experiment
(2009-09-21)The risk of loses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers ... -
Are Crime Rates Really Stationary?
(2009-09-11)Many empirical studies of the economics of crime focus solely on the determinants thereof, and do not consider the dynamic and cross-sectional properties of their data. As a response to this, the current paper offers an ... -
Myths and Facts about Panel Unit Root Tests
(2009-09-11)This paper points to some of the common myths and facts that have emerged from 20 years of research into the analysis of unit roots in panel data. Some of these are wellknown, others are not. But they all have in common ... -
Using Panel Data to Construct Simple and Efficient Unit Root Tests in the Presence of GARCH
(2009-09-11)In search for more efficient unit root tests in the presence of GARCH, some researchers have recently turned their attention to estimation by maximum likelihood. However, although theoretically appealing, the new test ... -
The Tax-Spending Nexus: Evidence from a Panel of US State- Local Governments
(2009-09-11)We re-examine the tax-spending nexus using a panel of 50 US state-local government units between 1963 and 1997. We find that, unlike tax revenues, expenditures adjust to revert back to a long-term equilibrium relationship. ... -
Seasonal Unit Root Tests for Trending and Breaking Series with Application to Industrial Production
(2009-09-11)Some unit root testing situations are more difficult than others. In the case of quarterly industrial production there is not only the seasonal variation that needs to be considered but also the occasionally breaking ... -
Stock returns in relation to environmental, social and governance performance: mispricing or compensation for risk?
(2009-09-01)Using detailed data on seven environmental, social and governance (ESG) attributes for a long panel of large publicly traded U.S. rms during July 1992-June 2008, this study nds that only the community indicator has a ...