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Longevity expectations and death: Can people predict their own demise?
(American Economic Review, 2001-09-01)
Do smokers respond to health shocks?
(Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001-11-01)
This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired
through exogenous health shocks, affects people's longevity expectations. We find
that smokers react differently to health shocks ...
Designing Climate Mitigation Policy
(2009-06)
Discounting the distant future: How much do uncertain rates increase valuations?
(Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2003-07-01)
We demonstrate that when the future path of the discount rate is uncertain and highly
correlated, the distant future should be discounted at significantly lower rates than
suggested by the current rate. We then use two centuries ...
Carbon mitigation costs for the commercial building sector: Discrete-continuous choice analysis of multifuel energy demand
(Resource and Energy Economics, 2008-12-01)
We estimate a carbon mitigation cost curve for the U.S. commercial sector based on
econometric estimation of the responsiveness of fuel demand and equipment choices
to energy price changes. The model econometrically estimates ...
Does higher hospital cost imply higher quality of care?
(Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003-02-01)
This study investigates whether higher input use per stay in the hospital (treatment
intensity) and longer length of stay improve outcomes of care. We allow for endogeneity
of intensity and length of stay by estimating a ...
Worth of watersheds: A producer surplus approach for valuing drought mitigation in Eastern Indonesia
(Environment and Development Economics, 2001-02-01)
This study combines hydrological modeling with applied micro-econometric techniques
to value a complex ecosystem service: drought mitigation provided by tropical forested
watersheds to agrarian communities. Spatial variation ...
Local Uses of Parks: Uncovering Patterns of Household Production from Forests of Siberut, Indonesia
(Conservation and Society, 2003)
Seeing the forest for the fuel
(Environment and Development Economics, 2004-02-01)
We demonstrate a new approach to understanding the role of fuelwood in the rural household
economy by applying insights from travel cost modeling to author-compiled household
survey data and meso-scale environmental statistics ...