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Behavioural attitudes toward risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt…

26 September 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper | Global Hub

There is a paucity of information on the conditions under which multiple climate-smart practices are adopted and on the synergies among such practices in increasing household resilience by improving…

26 September 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper | Sweden, Ethiopia, Global Hub

Do Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bureaucrats represent the general public or are they more in line with an interest group? We study preferences for environmental policy using a choice…

26 September 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper | Sweden

This paper analyzes vulnerability to climate change of the farming sector in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia across different agro-ecological zones. We construct composite vulnerability indices, which…

26 September 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper | Ethiopia

Stated preference (SP) researchers have encountered an increasing number of policy problems for which a willingness-to-accept (WTA) compensation question would seem to be the most reasonable approach…

22 June 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper |

This paper develops a stochastic dynamic programming model to investigate a type of dynamic enforcement strategy where the penalties for violations of environmental regulations are based on not only…

4 June 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper | China

Employing hourly data records from 2013 and 2014 in Beijing, we investigate the causal effects of vehicle traffic on air pollution. An arguably exogenous variation in vehicle use that results from the…

11 May 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper | China

We pair a county-level panel of annual industrial output with a fine-scale daily weather dataset to estimate the responses of industrial output to temperature changes in China. We have three primary…

11 May 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper | China

We investigate the effect of remittances from migrated family members on informal inter-household transfers, an issue that has received limited attention in the literature. Using rich panel data from…

11 May 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper | Ethiopia, Global Hub

Understanding unethical behavior is essential to many phenomena in the real world. The vast majority of existing studies have relied on stated behavior in surveys and some on incentivized experiments…

20 April 2016 | EfD Discussion Paper | Sweden, Global Hub