Browsing by Subject "Environmental economics"
Now showing items 1-20 of 23
-
-
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2013)The essays in applied microeconomics contained within this dissertation examine prices in the developing economy contexts of Indonesia and the Philippines. Prices, observed and unobserved, are determined by and incentivize ... -
Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics
(2018)This dissertation includes three papers discussing different aspects of environmental and energy economics and policy. The first paper ("Peaking Interest: How awareness drives the effectiveness of time-of-use electricity ... -
Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics
(2019)This dissertation is comprised of three papers which examine important topics in energy and environmental economics. The first paper ("Averting expenditures and desirable goods: Consumer demand for bottled water in the presence ... -
Fisheries Catch Shares Management in Argentina: Institutional Design, Economic Efficiency, and Social Outcomes
(2019)While property rights-based management is theoretically purported enhance economic efficiency in fisheries by reducing over-capitalization and extending fishing seasons, the social and economic empirical outcomes are less ... -
Impacts of Geological Variability on Carbon Storage Potential
(2011)The changes to the environment caused by anthropogenic climate change pose major challenges for energy production in the next century. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a group of technologies that would permit the continued ... -
Information as an Environmental Policy Instrument: Examining Household Response to Arsenic in Tube-Well Water in Araihazar, Bangladesh
(2011)This dissertation examines the potential of information-provision in motivating behavior that reduces human exposure to arsenic in drinking-water in Bangladesh. In chapter 2, the longer-term effects of the countrywide ... -
Innovation, Diffusion, and Regulation in Energy Technologies
(2017)The innovation and diffusion of new technologies is one of the central concerns of economics. New inventions or technological combinations do not spring fully formed into the world; as firms encounter and learn about new ... -
Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power Plants: Paving the Way for Thermal Solar
(2015)Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power Plants (ISCCs), composed of a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant and a Natural Gas-fired Combined Cycle (NGCC) power plant, have been recently introduced in the power generation sector ... -
More Value From the Same Fish: Catch Shares, Fishing Behavior, and Revenues
(2018)In recent decades there has been a great deal of interest in using property rights-based management and economic instruments as a means to extract the same resources at a lower cost, while also meeting certain sustainability ... -
Non-Market Valuation in Equilibrium
(2012)This dissertation investigates the non-market value of environmental quality in several contexts with attention paid to equilibrium effects. Chapter One contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the effect of various ... -
On the Regulation of Small Actors: Three Experimental Essays about Policies based on Voluntary Compliance and Decentralized Monitoring
(2016)Monitoring and enforcement are perhaps the biggest challenges in the design and implementation of environmental policies in developing countries where the actions of many small informal actors cause significant impacts on ... -
Protected Areas’ Deforestation Spillovers and Two Critical Underlying Mechanisms: An Empirical Exploration for the Brazilian Amazon
(2015)To date, the creation of protected areas (PAs) has been the dominant policy in the efforts to protect forests. Yet there is still somewhat limited rigorous evidence about the impacts of PAs on rates of deforestation. Further, ... -
Roads, Rights, and Rewards: Three Program Evaluations in Environmental and Resource Economics
(2017)This dissertation presents three program evaluations in environmental and resource economics. In the first chapter, I ask whether rural roads can contribute to a reversal of tree cover loss. Prior literature shows roads ... -
The Economics of Malaria Vector Control
(2011)In recent years, government aid agencies and international organizations have increased their financial commitments to controlling and eliminating malaria from the planet. This renewed emphasis on elimination is reminiscent ... -
The Role of Information in Behavioral and Environmental Health Economics
(2012)The increased use of information disclosure in environmental policy raises questions of whether and how provision of information motivates changes in behavior. Accurate assessment of the value of information provision in ... -
Three Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics
(2019)This dissertation is a collection of three essays in the field of environmental and energy economics. While each essay addresses different questions, they all contribute to the understanding of environment or energy economics ... -
Three Essays on Air Pollution in Developing Countries
(2015)Air pollution is now recognized as the deadliest problem in developing countries and policymakers are pressed to take action to relieve its health burden. Using a variety of econometric strategies, I explore various issues ... -
Three Essays on Energy and Development Economics
(2019)Global energy-use patterns are characterized by deep inequality. Electricity is indispensable for households, clinics, schools and firms, yet over a billion people live without it. At the same time, nearly three billion ... -
Three Essays On Protecting Biodiversity In Developing Countries
(2013)Developing countries often hoard the largest number of species, but also experience very high poverty levels. This dissertation reviews the evidence of the performance common conservation interventions. I find that despite ...
