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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 ... -
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 ... -
Marine protected areas in Costa Rica: How do artisanal fishers respond?
(2017)Costa Rica is considering expanding their marine protected areas (MPAs) to conserve marine resources. Due to the importance of households’ responses to an MPA in defining the MPA’s ecological and economic outcomes, this ... -
Local Community Characteristics and Cooperation for Shared Green Reputation
(2016-01)This article examines how basic socioeconomic and political factors are associated with higher levels of cooperation to garner a local community’s shared green reputation. We analyze panel data on participation efforts in ... -
Inequality and the Biosphere
(2018)Rising inequalities and accelerating global environmental change pose two of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. To explore how these phenomena are linked, we apply a social ecological systems perspective ... -
Heterogeneous Local Spillovers from Protected Areas in Costa Rica
(2017)Spillovers can significantly reduce or enhance the net effects of land-use policies, yet there exists little rigorous evidence concerning their magnitudes. We examine how Costa Rica’s national parks affect deforestation ... -
Climate change impacts and adaptation among smallholder farmers in Central America
(2018-08)Smallholder farmers are one of the most vulnerable groups to climate change, yet efforts to support farmer adaptation are hindered by the lack of information on how they are experiencing and responding to climate change. ... -
Evaluating Interactions of Forest Conservation Policies on Avoided Deforestation
(2015)We estimate the effects on deforestation that have resulted from policy interactions between parks and payments and between park buffers and payments in Costa Rica between 2000 and 2005. We show that the characteristics ... -
Environmental and Economic Impacts of Growing Certified Organic Coffee in Colombia
(2015-02)According to advocates, eco-certification can improve developing country farmers’ environmental and economic performance. However, these notional benefits can be undercut by self-selection: the tendency of relatively wealthy ... -
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 ...
