AAERE 2022 Congress
The 11th Congress of the Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AAERE) will be held in University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), Vietnam, August 19 to 20, 2022, co-hosted by…
The 11th Congress of the Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AAERE) will be held in University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), Vietnam, August 19 to 20, 2022, co-hosted by…
The Economy & Environment Partnership for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) is pleased to announce a call for concept note for a seed grant which provides researchers in Southeast Asia the chance to develop a…
Michael Hanemann has been working on the economics of water most of his professional life, but with a different perspective than many others. He claims that the economics of water is too important to…
Twenty researchers from the Global South who obtained their doctor’s degree five years ago or less are participating in the EfD’s Early Career Fellowship program. The purpose of the program is to…
Dear All: We are pleased to announce that the virtual sessions of the Seventh Annual Workshop of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) will take place on June 23-24, 2022 (09:00 am - 12…
We study the effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement in mathematics and reading by using a data set from six sub-Saharan African countries. By using an estimation based on within-teacher within-student strategy, we can avoid a potential endogeneity bias. In most estimations and most countries, we do not find a significant teacher knowledge effect. The main reasons are teacher absenteeism and the need to focus on core knowledge.
This study examines factors determining farmers’ investment in organic farming using a contextualized lab-in-the-field experiment with 220 small household farmers in Northern Vietnam. We focus on the role of network structure, information nudge, and social comparison between farmers using three types of networks: circle, star and complete. Our results suggest that, on average, around 64% of the land is invested in organic farming in the complete network in which each farmer is connected to all of the others, while only about 57% of the land is invested in the circle and star network.
Shrimp aquaculture is among the most vital sectors in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam regarding economic well-being, social aspects, and food security beyond the country boundary. Nevertheless, this sector has faced emerging challenges from increased climate variability during recent decades, negatively influencing its outcomes.
This study uses a large field experiment linked to actual behavior to evaluate the effects of an information campaign with and without celebrity endorsement on the use of single-use plastics. We find that demand for single use plastics, particularly for plastic straws and spoons, is very responsive to information when — and only when — it is coupled with our celebrity endorsement. The effect of celebrity endorsement is sizeable.