Approximately 25 people from the Czech Republic, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Ghana, and Costa Rica participated in the second meeting of the Transformative Pathways…
Twenty civil servants from five East African countries met with 16 EfD researchers over four intense days to share knowledge and experience of policies to increase the use of clean cooking…
A new article published in the Environmental and Resources Economics journal estimates the marginal effects of increasing forest cover on dengue prevalence in Costa Rica. The study shows that an…
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), also known as Randomized Evaluations, serve as a methodology for evaluating policy impacts and have gained increasing prominence. This method randomly assigns…
In this study, we estimate the marginal effects of increasing forest cover on dengue prevalence in Costa Rica using econometric models to relate hospital admission records to forest cover maps from 2001 and 2011. We find that increasing the percentage of forest cover significantly decreases both the number of hospital admissions for dengue and the probability of an outbreak.
The next EEU seminar will be held now on Monday the 8th of April at 12:10 – 13:15 in B44 or Zoom The seminar will be held by Mitesh Kataria. Mitesh is a senior lecturer at the department of economics…
EfD Vietnam recently played a key role in a dialogue on carbon markets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's largest economic hub. The team, along with local stakeholders, prepared a policy report and held a…
Felipe Vásquez , a professor at Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD) in Chile and an EfD fellow, participated in an international seminar in Chile along with other researchers from Europe, Australia, and…
European Conference 2024 The 2024 European Conference of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA) will take place at the University of Warsaw, Poland, on September 19 and 20, 2024. Extended…