Can school environmental education programs make children and parents more pro-environmental?

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on

We evaluate the direct and indirect effects of an environmental educational program with value-laded content on children's and parents' knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding the consumption and disposal of plastics. We do this using a randomized field experiment targeting fourth-grade children in Chile. The educational program had a sizeable and a positive impact on children’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices, but no effect on parents' behavior.

Climate Change, Fisheries, Policy Design, Waste

Mapping Firms' adaptive profiles: The role of experiences and risk perception in the aquaculture industry

Submitted by Cristóbal Vásquez on

The experiences of aquacultural firms regarding past environmental events and their present risk perceptions of environmental and social threats are key factors in understanding their adaptive response. This study aims to understand marine aquaculture firms' adaptive behavior considering firms' heterogeneity and the relationship between past experiences, present perceptions, and willingness to invest in adaptation.

Fisheries, Policy Design

The effect of sustainability labels on farmed-shrimp preferences: Insights from a discrete choice experiment in Vietnam

Submitted by Luat Do on
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This study investigates the effectiveness of sustainability labels, environmental attitudes, food safety concerns, and knowledge on Vietnamese consumer preferences for sustainably farmed shrimp. Mixed logit and latent class models were applied to estimate utility functions based on 459 samples collected using a choice experiment. The results indicate that Vietnamese consumers prefer sustainably farmed shrimp to conventionally farmed shrimp. Also, both food safety concerns and consumer knowledge vigorously promote sustainably farmed shrimp choices.

Policy Design

Real‐time forecasting of the Australian macroeconomy using flexible Bayesian VARs

Submitted by Luat Do on
EfD Authors:

This paper evaluates the real-time forecast performance of alternative Bayesian autoregressive (AR) and vector autoregressive (VAR) models for the Australian macroeconomy. To this end, we construct an updated vintage database and compare the predictive ability of a wide set of specifications that takes into account almost all possible combinations of nonstandard errors existing in the current literature. In general, we find that the models with flexible covariance structures can improve the forecast accuracy as compared with the standard variant.

Policy Design

Sustainability certification and water efficiency in coffee farming: The role of irrigation technologies

Submitted by Luat Do on
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The unsustainable use of irrigation water is one of the most serious environmental problems in coffee farming. Rapid expansion of sustainability certifications and adoption of advanced irrigation technologies are expected to promote more sustainable water use through changes in water management practices in coffee farming. However, there lacks empirical evidence on the effects of those certification schemes on water efficiency.

Agriculture, Policy Design