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Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing Policies in the Electricity Sector

First Name Last Name

Food Safety and Risk Governance in Globalized Markets

Sandra Hoffmann and William Harder

Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes

Carolyn Kousky, Olga Rostapshova, Michael Toman and Richard Zeckhauser

Emissions Targets and the Real Business Cycle: Intensity Targets versus Caps or Taxes

Carolyn Fischer and Michael R. Springborn

Emissions Targets and the Real Business Cycle: Intensity Targets versus Caps or Taxes

Carolyn Fischer and Michael R. Springborn

Cost-Effectiveness of Electricity Energy Efficiency Programs

Toshi Arimura, Richard Newell and Karen Palmer

Cost-Effectiveness of Electricity Energy Efficiency Programs

Toshi Arimura, Shanjun Li, Richard Newell and Karen Palmer

REDD in Design: Assessment of Planned First-Generation Activities in Indonesia

Erin Myers Madeira

Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and Determinants

Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie and Köhlin, Gunnar

Climate Policy Design with Correlated Uncertainties in Offset Supply and Abatement Cost

Harrison Fell, Dallas Burtraw, Richard Morgenstern and Karen Palmer

Conservation Policies and Labor Markets: Unraveling the Effects of National Parks on Local Wages in Costa Rica

Juan Robalino and Laura Villalobos-Fiatt

From Science to Applications: Determinants of Diffusion in the Use of Earth Observations

Molly Macauley, Joe Maher and Jhih-Shyang Shih

Determinants of Performance of Drinking-Water Community Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of Case Studies in Rural Costa Rica

Madrigal, Róger, Alpízar, Francisco and Schlüter, Achim

Attitudes Toward Uncertainty Among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin and Stefan Trautmann

Reassessing the Oil Security Premium

Stephen Brown and Hillard Huntington

Does Relative Position Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson and Haileselassie Medhin

Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change: Some Estimates

Roger Sedjo

Paying the Price of Sweetening Your Donation: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Alpízar, Francisco and Peter Martinsson

International Fuel Tax Assessment: An Application to Chile

Ian Parry and Jon Strand

The Bioeconomics of Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Developing Countries

Wisdom Akpalu and Ekbom Anders

The Poverty Demography Trap in Third World Countries: Empirical Evidence from Tanzania

Asmerom Kidane

Effects of Global Fisheries on Developing Countries: Possibilities for Income and Threat of Depletion

Håkan Eggert and Mads Greaker

Investments in Land Conservation in the Ethiopian Highlands: A Household Plot-Level Analysis of the Roles of Poverty, Tenure Security, and Market Inventives

Genanew Bekele and Alemu Mekonnen

The Evidence Base for Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of “Sustainable†Certification

Allen Blackman and Jorge Rivera

Adoption and Impact of Improved Groundnut Varieties on Rural Poverty: Evidence from Rural Uganda

Menale Kassie, Bekele Shiferaw and Geoffrey Muricho

Climate Policy’s Uncertain Outcomes for Households: The Role of Complex Allocation Schemes in Cap and Trade

Joshua Blonz, Dallas Burtraw and Margaret Walls

Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study

Fredrik Carlsson, Mitesh Kataria, Alan Krupnick, Elina Lampi, Åsa Löfgren, Ping Qin, Susie Chung and Thomas Sterner

Behavioral Response to Plastic Bag Legislation in Botswana

Johane Dikgang and Martine Visser

Assessing Investment in Future Landsat Instruments: The Example of Forest Carbon Offsets

Molly Macauley and Jhih-Shyang Shih

Climate Change, Total Factor Productivity, and the Tanzanian Economy: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Mintewab Bezabih, Muyeye Chambwera and Jesper Stage

Diversity or Focus? Spending to Combat Infectious Diseases When Budgets Are Tight

Soren Anderson, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Stephen Salant

Estimation of the Water Quality Amelioration Value of Wetlands: A Study of the Western Cape, South Africa

Jane Turpie, Elizabeth Day, Vere Ross-Gillespie and Anton Louw

Energy-Efficiency Program Evaluations: Opportunities for Learning and Inputs to Incentive Mechanisms

Noah Kaufman and Karen Palmer

Don't Tell Me What to Do, Tell Me Who to Follow! Field Experiment Evidence on Voluntary Donations

Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez and Peter Martinsson

The Evidence Base for Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of “Sustainable” Certification

Allen Blackman and Jorge Rivera

Responsible Investment: A Vehicle for Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth in South Africa

Stephanie Giamporcaro, Lise Pretorius and Martine Visser

Environmental Goods Collection and Children’s Schooling: Evidence from Kenya

Simon Ndiritu and Wilfred Nyangena

Combining Policies for Renewable Energy: Is the Whole Less than the Sum of Its Parts?

Carolyn Fischer and Louis Preonas

Risk Preferences as Determinants of Soil Conservation Decisions in Ethiopia

Hailemariam Teklewold and Köhlin, Gunnar

Options for Energy Efficiency in India and Barriers to Their Adoption: A Scoping Study

Soma Bhattacharya and Maureen Cropper

Urban Fuel Demand in Ethiopia: An Almost-Ideal Demand System Approach

Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Arie J. Oskam and Bayou Demeke

Participation in Off-Farm Employment, Rainfall Patterns, and Rate of Time Preferences: The Case of Ethiopia

Mintewab Bezabih, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Liyousew GebreMedhin and Köhlin, Gunnar

The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP): Some Implications for the Forest Industry

Roger Sedjo

Urban Energy Transition and Technology Adoption: The Case of Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia

Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie and Köhlin, Gunnar

Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act: Structure, Effects, and Implications of a Knowable Pathway

Nathan Richardson, Arthur G. Fraas and Dallas Burtraw

The Role of Land Certification in Reducing Gender Gaps in Productivity in Rural Ethiopia

Mintewab Bezabih and Stein Holden

Does Eco-Certification Have Environmental Benefits? Organic Coffee in Costa Rica

Allen Blackman and Maria A. Naranjo

What Drives Voluntary Eco-Certification in Mexico?

Allen Blackman and Santiago Guerrero

Climate Change Uncertainty Quantification: Lessons Learned from the Joint EU-USNRC Project on Uncertainty Analysis of Probabilistic Accident Consequence Codes

Roger Cooke and G.N. Kelly

Managing the Risk of Natural Catastrophes: The Role and Functioning of State Insurance Programs

Carolyn Kousky