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Regulating Greenhouse Gases from Coal Power Plants under the Clean Air Act

Joshua Linn, Erin Mastrangelo and Dallas Burtraw

Water Resources Planning under Climate Change: A “Real Options†Application to Investment Planning in the Blue Nile

Marc Jeuland and Dale Whittington

What Changes Energy Consumption, and for How Long? New Evidence from the 2001 Brazilian Electricity Crisis

Francois Gerard

Implementing REDD through Community-Based Forest Management: Lessons from Tanzania

Elizabeth Robinson, Heidi Albers, Charles Meshack and Razack B. Lokina

Experimental Departures from Self-Interest when Competing Partnerships Share Output

Josh Cherry, Stephen Salant and Neslihan Uler

Community Controlled Forests, Carbon Sequestration and REDD+: Some Evidence from Ethiopia

Abebe D. Beyene, Randall Bluffstone and Alemu Mekonnen

The Effect of Stochastic Oscillations in Property Rights Regimes on Forest Output in China

Stephen Salant and Xueying Yu

Biofuels, Economic Growth, and the External Sector in Ethiopia: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Tadele Ferede, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen, Fantu Guta, Levin, Jörgen and Köhlin, Gunnar

The Effect of Stochastic Oscillations in Property Rights Regimes on Forest Output in China

Stephen Salant and Xueying Yu

Mixing It Up: Power Sector Energy and Regional and Regulatory Climate Policies in the Presence of a Carbon Tax

Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

Conservation Fees in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park between Botswana and South Africa in the Presence of Land Restitution

Johane Dikgang and Edwin Muchapondwa

Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Analysis Deconstructed: Changing Assumptions, Changing Results

Blair Beasley, Matt Woerman, Anthony Paul, Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

Risk Perception, Choice of Drinking Water, and Water Treatment: Evidence from Kenyan Towns

Joseph Onjala, Simon Ndiritu and Jesper Stage

Comparative Life Cycle Assessments: Carbon Neutrality and Wood Biomass Energy

Roger Sedjo

Will a Driving Restriction Policy Reduce Car Trips? A Case Study of Beijing, China

Lanlan Wang, Jintao Xu, Xinye Zheng and Ping Qin

A Retrospective Review of Shale Gas Development in the United States: What Led to the Boom?

Zhongmin Wang and Alan Krupnick

Household Fuel Choice in Urban Ethiopia: A Random Effects Multinomial Logit Analysis

Yonas Alem, Abebe D. Beyene, Gunnar Köhlin and Alemu Mekonnen

Comparing the Clean Air Act and a Carbon Price

Nathan Richardson and Arthur G. Fraas

Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica Abstract: Pro-environmental behavior is the willingness to cooperate and contribute to environmental public goods. A good understanding of why individuals undertake pro-environmental actions is important in order to construct policies that are aligned with preferences and actual behavioral patterns, such as concern for social esteem and reputation. In this paper, we present the results of a framed field experiment that explores reputation formation as a driver in support of household recycling practices. We use a “shame†and a “pride†treatment to test which is more effective, if at all, in increasing recycling effort. We find that reputational concerns indeed play a role in shaping individual pro-environmental behavior. Surprisingly, subjects cooperate more if the situation is framed as avoiding shame (bad reputation) rather than as acquiring pride and gratitude (good reputation). The actual experiment is based on a real recycling program, with participants who are heads of urban households in Costa Rica

Alpízar, Francisco and Elisabeth Gsottbauer

The New CAFE Standards: Are They Enough on Their Own?

Virginia McConnell

Crop-Livestock Inter-linkages and Climate Change Implications for Ethiopia’s Agriculture: A Ricardian Approach

Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen, Rahel Deribe, Samuel Abera and Meseret Molla Kassahun

Selling a Dollar for More Than a Dollar? Evidence from Online Penny Auctions

Zhongmin Wang and Minbo Xu

The Economic Valuation of Dryland Ecosystem Services in the South African Kgalagadi by the Local Communities

Johane Dikgang and Edwin Muchapondwa

Holding Distribution Utilities Liable for Outage Costs: An Economic Look

Timothy Brennan

Nudging Energy Efficiency Behavior: The Role of Information Labels

Richard Newell and Juha Siikamäki

The Effect of Hydro-meteorological Emergencies on Internal Migration

Juan Robalino, Jimenez, José and Adriana Chacon-Cascante

Is Energy Efficiency Capitalized into Home Prices? Evidence from Three US Cities

Margaret Walls, Karen Palmer and Todd Gerarden

Promoting Second Generation Biofuels: Does the First Generation Pave the Road?

Eggert, HÃ¥kan and Mads Greaker

The Rebound Effect for Passenger Vehicles

Joshua Linn

The Rebound Effect for Passenger Vehicles

Joshua Linn

Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Interactions and Outcomes

Carolyn Fischer, Richard Newell and Louis Preonas

Sector Effects of the Shale Gas Revolution in the United States

Alan Krupnick, Zhongmin Wang and Yushuang Wang

Floodplain Conservation as a Flood Mitigation Strategy: Examining Costs and Benefits

Carolyn Kousky and Margaret Walls

Floodplain Conservation as a Flood Mitigation Strategy: Examining Costs and Benefits

Carolyn Kousky and Margaret Walls

Taxing Electricity Sector Carbon Emissions at Social Cost

Anthony Paul, Blair Beasley and Karen Palmer

Technology Flexibility and Stringency for Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Dallas Burtraw and Matt Woerman

Is What You See What You Get? The Value of Natural Landscape Views

Margaret Walls, Carolyn Kousky and Ziyan Chu

Moving from Concept to Implementation: The Emergence of the Northern Everglades Payment for Environmental Services Program

Leonard Shabman and Sarah Lynch

Cheaper Fuels for the Light-Duty Fleet: Opportunities and Barriers

Arthur G. Fraas, Winston Harrington and Richard D. Morgenstern

Do Market Shares or Technology Explain Rising New Vehicle Fuel Economy?

Shefali Khanna and Joshua Linn

Using the Tax System To Address Competition Issues with a Carbon Tax

Gilbert Metcalf

Tax Reform and Environmental Policy: Options for Recycling Revenue from a Tax on Carbon Dioxide

Lawrence H. Goulder and Marc Hafstead

Two World Views on Carbon Revenues

Dallas Burtraw and Samantha Sekar

Wood Bioenergy and Land Use: A Challenge to the Searchinger Hypothesis

Roger Sedjo, Brent Sohngen and Anne Riddle

Water Resoures and Unconventional Fossil Fuel Development: Linking Physical Impacts to Social Costs

Yusuke Kuwayama, Sheila Olmstead and Alan Krupnick

The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli and Mark Cohen

The Impact of Team Inspections on Enforcement and Deterrence

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli and Mark Cohen

Flooding and Resilience: Valuing Conservation Investments in a World with Climate Change

Carolyn Kousky, Margaret Walls and Ziyan Chu

The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Elisheba Spiller and Christopher Timmins

The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Elisheba Spiller and Christopher Timmins