{"title":"Climate change and fractional outcomes: A long-run panel study of U.S. crop failure rates and pasture rates","authors":"Seung Min Kim , Robert Mendelsohn","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper adopts the Fractional Response Model (Papke et al., 1996) to the Mérel et al. (2021) panel model to study warming effects on county crop failure and pasture rates across the United States. Warming is predicted to increase national crop failure rates by 0.5 percentage points per <span><math><mrow><mo>°</mo><mi>C</mi></mrow></math></span> but not change national pasture rates. Counties with high average failure rates in the southern Great Plains-Rocky Mountain regions are especially vulnerable to warming. Counties in the north will pasture less and counties in the south will pasture more cropland with warming. In contrast, covariates that increase crop productivity, such as groundwater irrigation availability, reduce pasture rate and failure rate. These crop failure and pasture effects must be added to the yield effects reported in the literature to get a complete picture of the effects of climate change on agriculture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103116"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew R. Sloggy , R. Aaron Hrozencik , Dale T. Manning , Chris G. Goemans , Roger L. Claassen
{"title":"Insurance and extraction incentives in a common pool resource: Evidence from groundwater use in the high plains","authors":"Matthew R. Sloggy , R. Aaron Hrozencik , Dale T. Manning , Chris G. Goemans , Roger L. Claassen","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103125","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103125","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although insurance is an important risk management tool in many resource-dependent sectors, its connections to natural resource use are not well understood. We estimate the impact of US federal crop insurance pricing policy on the private use of common pool groundwater in the High Plains region of the United States. Field level panel data on insurance purchases and groundwater extraction allow us to exploit spatial discontinuities in insurance prices at county borders while instrumenting for endogenous prices. A theoretical model describes the mechanisms connecting insurance and resource extraction through groundwater intensity and irrigated acreage. Empirical results demonstrate that a 1% increase in irrigated insurance prices decreases total groundwater use by 0.501%, irrigated acreage by 0.266%, and irrigation per acre by 0.283%. Simulation results suggest that reducing subsidies for irrigated insurance by a recently considered 6.2 percentage points decreases groundwater use by 7.47%. These results suggest that insurance price subsidies may have unintended consequences for natural resource use but could be designed to complement conservation objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103125"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of air pollution on fertility in 657 European regions","authors":"Árpád Stump , Ágnes Szabó-Morvai","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of ambient air pollution on birth rates in Europe. We estimate the causal effect of air pollution on fertility by utilizing variations in wind speed and the number of heating days as instrumental variables for air quality. Our analysis encompasses 657 regions of NUTS 3 level, with each region having 2 to 6 years of observations between 2013 and 2020. Thus, our study is the first to extend this analysis to multiple countries, pollutants, and years. Our findings indicate that a one standard deviation increase in particulate matter concentration levels leads to a 14.1% decrease in birth rates the following year and an additional 17.2% decrease two years later. Moreover, a similar increase in air pollution has a more pronounced adverse effect on fertility in countries with lower GDP. Other pollutants play little role in shaping fertility outcomes. This result is important for environmental policies with limited resources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103111"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of tailored information for the uptake of carsharing, evidence from a field experiment in Oslo","authors":"Alice Ciccone, Paal Brevik Wangsness","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103121","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reducing reliance on private cars is essential for achieving a sustainable urban transport system, with carsharing offering a potentially valuable complement to public transport, walking, and biking. This study evaluates whether personalized information provision can promote carsharing adoption through a large-scale, pre-registered field experiment in Oslo, Norway. Car owners with older, underutilized vehicles were randomly assigned to a control and treatment group based on their residence postcode. About 20,000 car owners in the treatment postcodes received emails and were exposed to an online calculator that compared the costs of owning a car versus using a carsharing service for their travel needs, while the control group received no intervention. The results show a 15% increase in carsharing uptake in treated compared to the control areas, equivalent to approximately 400 new sign-ups over six months. By leveraging objective administrative data, this study provides causal evidence of the impact of tailored information on carsharing adoption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103121"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agreeing on public goods or bads","authors":"Erik Ansink , Hans-Peter Weikard","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Without regulation or agreement, public goods are underprovided and public bads are overprovided. Both problems are usually seen as flip sides of the same coin. In this paper we examine a situation where a public good is good for some agents but bad for others, depending on the provisioning level of the good. We allow agents to form a coalition to coordinate this provision. Our results show that, compared to games with only goods (or only bads), larger coalitions form in equilibrium. For a game specification with quadratic benefit- and cost functions, we find the grand coalition to be stable except when agents have identical or almost identical characteristics. The primary driver of coalition stability is the avoidance of a wasteful contest between agents pulling the provision level in opposing directions. In equilibrium, such wasteful contests are confined to a narrow range within the parameter space. This result connects the literatures on public goods and contests.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103123"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does environmental regulation drive specialisation in green innovation?","authors":"Igor Bagayev , Dieter F. Kogler , Julie Lochard","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the response of technological change to one of the major environmental regulations in the European Union (EU) – the Ambient Air Quality Directive (AAQD). Our identification strategy exploits the structure of this directive, which imposes air quality measures in regions exceeding pollutant concentration limits. We implement a quasi difference-in-differences strategy and test for the effect of environmental measures on innovation in 654 technology classes at the EU region (NUTS-2) level over the 1999–2015 period. We show that AAQD environmental measures drive the specialisation of regions in green technologies. We find a positive effect for patents in the two most prevailing green technology classes, i.e., clean energy and industrial processes, as well as evidence of spatial leakage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103101"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The price of carbon risk: Evidence from the Kyoto Protocol ratification","authors":"Justin Hung Nguyen , Cameron Truong , Bohui Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the price of carbon risk using the Kyoto Protocol ratification (hereafter KPR) committed by the Australian government in December 2007. We find that, in the post-KPR period, firms with high carbon emissions experience a substantial increase in the costs of debt and equity relative to those firms with a lower carbon footprint. Moreover, after the KPR, carbon emitters are less likely to be financed by major banks and more likely to borrow from new lenders. When conducting seasoned equity offerings, carbon emitters are more willing to use underwriting services rather than rights offerings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103118"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143181986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patronage and pollution","authors":"Lianzhou Tang , Wenli Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Patronage network has varying effects based on different promotional incentives. Our study explores these dynamics using China’s pollution emissions as a backdrop. We discover that integrating environmental protection into performance evaluations transforms patronage from increasing to reducing pollution. However, this positive shift in environmental impact occurs at the expense of economic growth. Our findings illuminate the significant effectiveness of China’s pollution control and demonstrate how formal institutions shape the results of informal systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103115"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143183277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is broader trading welfare improving for emission trading systems?","authors":"Xianling Long , Nicolas Astier , Da Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emission trading systems are cornerstone policies to reduce carbon emissions. Although economic intuition suggests that broader allowance trading should be welfare improving, this paper proves that view can be wrong. Under an increasingly popular type of emissions trading scheme — tradable performance standards (TPS), multiple narrow markets can decrease emissions relative to a single unified market, so that restricting trade does not always harm welfare. We show analytically that, when intensity benchmarks are heterogeneous within a sector, this result can hold even if the well-known “implicit output subsidy” does not impact total output. Finally, we provide evidence that this concern can be of high practical relevance. Using a general equilibrium model of China’s TPS for 2020–2030, we show that broader trading results in significantly higher emissions (up to 10%), and decreases welfare relative to narrower markets when the social cost of carbon exceeds $91/tCO<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103110"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143181908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susana Ferreira , Sara Martínez de Morentin , Amaya Erro-Garcés
{"title":"Measuring job risks when hedonic wage models do not do the job","authors":"Susana Ferreira , Sara Martínez de Morentin , Amaya Erro-Garcés","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The theory of compensating differentials predicts that wages should compensate for differences in job characteristics, including the risk of death on the job. Empirically estimating these compensating differentials in real-world labor markets has, however, proven difficult. This paper explores the potential of job satisfaction regressions as an additional valuation approach to estimate the tradeoffs between wages and job amenities along the wage-amenity frontier. In this approach, job satisfaction scores act as a proxy for utility at work, and can be used to directly estimate the tradeoffs between wages and amenities at the job taken by the worker. Conventional hedonic wage regressions with data on thirty-five thousand workers across thirty European countries show limited evidence that European workers facing larger job risks and other workplace disamenities receive higher wages. On the other hand, using the same data, workers who perceive their jobs to be riskier, are absent more days from work due to work accidents, or are exposed to worse conditions at their workplace are less satisfied with their jobs, <em>ceteris paribus</em>, revealing a negative valuation of those job disamenities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 103120"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143181988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}