Browsing by Subject "Environmental economics"
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Air Pollution, Water, and Sanitation: Household Response to Environmental Risk
(2020)Despite the threats to morbidity, mortality, and human capital accumulation posed by environmental risks, investments in environmental health technologies remain low. This is especially evident in low- and middle-income ... -
Cooking Fuel “Stacking” Implications for Willingness to Switch to Clean Fuels in Peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
(2020)Cooking fuel “stacking,” or the use of multiple types of fuels, can be problematic in interventions when households are using both clean and dirty fuels at the same time. Dirty fuels such as firewood contribute to indoor ... -
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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 ... -
Essays in Environmental Economics and Policy
(2020)This dissertation is comprised of three research papers that entail implications for public policy. The first two papers are related to environmental policy, and specifically air pollution. The marginal willingness to pay ... -
Essays on Theoretical Methods for Environmental and Developmental Economics Policy Analysis
(2020)This dissertation contributes to the fields of environmental, natural resource and development economics. It contains three essays, each tackling related but different sets of questions by developing theoretical, analytical ... -
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 ... -
Pollution, Health, and the Economy: Understanding and Modeling Their Interactions
(2020)Air pollution, human health, and the economy are a connected system. Substantial efforts have been made in understanding and modeling these connections, so that we can predict the health and economic impacts of changes in ... -
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 ...
