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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 ...
Direct and Indirect Effects of Extreme Weather Events and Potential Estimation Biases
(2015-11)
The literature analyzing the effects of extreme weather events on social and economic outcomes has increased significantly in the last few years. Most of these analyses use either self-reported data about whether the storm ...
Spillovers from Conservation Programs
(Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, California (Estados Unidos), 2017-10)
Conservation programs have increased significantly, as has the evaluation of their impacts. However, the evaluation of their potential impacts beyond program borders has been scarce. Such spillovers can significantly reduce ...
Small farmer cooperatives and voluntary coffee certifications Rewarding progressive farmers of engendering widespread change in Costa Rica?
(ELSEVIER, 2017)
Our research examines the benefits and drawbacks for cooperatives who participate in voluntary coffee
certifications. We interviewed administrators at twenty Costa Rican coffee cooperatives about management
practices ...
Overcoming obstacles to sharing data on tree allometric equations
(Springer Link, 2015)
Strategic Research Agenda on Environment for Development
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2016-02)
Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
(2018)
To reduce SDG tradeoffs in infrastructure provision, and to inform searches for SDG synergies, the authors show that roads’ impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests varied significantly across fron-tiers. Impacts varied predictably ...
The Effect of Hydro-Meteorological Emergencies on Internal Migration
(Elsevier, Amsterdam (Paises Bajos), 2015-03)
We estimate the effect of hydro-meteorological emergencies on internal migration in Costa Rica during 1995–2000. We find that, on average, emergencies significantly increase average migration. However, we also find that ...
Gobernanza para la Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas (AbE) para pequeños caficultores de América Central
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2019)
The long-run relationship between CO2 emissions and economic activity in a small open economy: Uruguay 1882 - 2010
(Instituto de Economía, Montevideo (Uruguay), 2015-09)
The long-run relationship between carbon dioxide emissions from energy use and economic activity level is estimated for Uruguay between 1882 and 2010. We apply cointegration techniques and estimate a Vector Error Correction ...