Browsing Publicaciones en revistas científicas by Author "Alpízar, Francisco"

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    • Determinants of food insecurity among smallholder farmer households in Central America: recurrent versus extreme weather-driven events. 

      Alpízar, Francisco; Saborío-Rodríguez, Milagro; Martínez-Rodríguez, M. Ruth; Viguera, Bárbara; Vignola, Raffaele; Capitán, Tabaré; Harvey, Celia A. (2020)
      To ensure food security among rural communities under a changing climate, policymakers need information on the prevalence and determinants of food insecurity, the role of extreme weather events in exacerbating food insecurity, ...

    • Policy design for the Anthropocene 

      Sterner, Thomas; Barbier, Edward B.; Bateman, Ian; den Bijgaart, Inge van; Crépin, Anne-Sophie; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Fischer, Carolyn; Habla, Wolfgang; Hassler, John; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Lange, Andreas; Polasky, Stephen; Rockström, Johan; Smith, Henrik G.; Steffen, Will; Wagner, Gernot; Wilen, James E.; Alpízar, Francisco; Azar, Christian; Carless, Donna; Chávez, Carlos; Coria, Jessica; Engström, Gustav; Jagers, Sverker C.; Köhlin, Gunnar; Löfgren, Åsa; Pleijel, Håkan; Robinson, Amanda (Nature, 2019)

    • Spillovers from targeting of incentives: Exploring responses to being excluded. 

      Alpízar, Francisco; Nordén, Anna; Pfaff, Alexander; Robalino, Juan (Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2017)
      A growing set of policies involve transfers conditioned upon socially desired actions, such as attending school or conserving forest. However, given a desire to maximize the impact of limited funds by avoiding transfers ...

    • The impacts of a capacity-building workshop in a randomized adaptation project 

      Alpízar, Francisco; Bermedo Carpio, María del; Ferraro, Paul J.; Meiselman, Ben S. (CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2019)
      Encouraging adaptation to climate change is fundamentally about encouraging changes in human behaviour. To promote these changes, governments, non-profits and multilateral institutions have invested in a range of ...

    • Time-varying pricing may increase total electricity consumption: Evidence from Costa Rica 

      Capitán, Tabaré; Alpízar, Francisco; Madrigal-Ballestero, Róger; . Pattanayak, Subhrendu K. (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 ...
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