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Do entrance fees crowd out donations for public goods? Evidence from a protected area in Costa Rica
(Cambridge University, Cambridge (Reino Unido), 2014-06-30)
In this paper, we investigate how different levels of entrance fees affect donations for a public good, a natural park. To explore this issue, we conducted a stated preference study focusing on visitors’ preferences for ...
Bridging the Policy and Investment Gap for Payment for Ecosystem Services: Learning from Costa Rican Experience and Roads Ahead
(Global Green Growth Institute, Seúl (Corea del Sur), 2016-10)
Between 2000 to 2010, forests were lost at an average of 5.2 million hectares per year across the globe (FAO 2010). Though the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation vary, agricultural expansion is responsible for ...
Rapid participatory appraisal for the design and evaluation of payment for ecosystem services: An introduction to an assessment guide.
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2017-04)
Credit, Insurance, and Farmers’ Liability: Evidence from a Lab in the Field Experiment with Coffee Farmers in Costa Rica.
(2017-03)
To cope with losses from extreme hydro-meteorological events, governments typically implement disaster relief programs and offer debt relief to affected parties. Governments in developing countries have made extensive use ...
Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate
(Springer, Berlín (Alemania), 2015)
When designing schemes such as conditional cash transfers or payments for ecosystem services, the choice of whom to select and whom to exclude is critical.We incentivize and measure actual contributions to an environmental ...
Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.
(2013-12)
Pro-environmental behavior is the willingness to cooperate and contribute to environmental public goods. A good understanding of why individuals undertake pro-environmental actions is important in order to construct policies ...
Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2015-07-22)
Both Tanzania’s and Costa Rica’s beaches provide important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles. Poaching of eggs by local people for food or for sale presents a major threat to these species, as do other predators. ...
Time-varying pricing may increase total electricity consumption: Evidence from Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2020)
We study the implementation of a time-varying pricing (TVP) program by a major electricity utility in Costa Rica. Because of particular features of the data, we use recently developed understanding ofthe two-way fixed ...