{"title":"On the Relation between Dual-Rate Discounting and Substitutability","authors":"Tomas Kögel","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1726709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1726709","url":null,"abstract":"To justify substantial emission reductions, recent literature on cost-benefit analysis of climate change suggests discounting environment consumption with an environmental discount rate instead of a consumption discount rate that is usually used in cost-benefit analysis. The present study clarifies that whether or not this dual-rate discounting approach succeeds in justifying substantial emission reductions depends on whether or not environment and goods consumption are substitutes in the Hicks-Allen sense and in the Edgeworth-Pareto sense (substitutes in the Hicks-Allen sense implies the Hicksian goods demand to be increasing in the relative price of environmental goods, while substitutes in the Edgeworth-Pareto sense implies the marginal utility of goods consumption to be decreasing in environment consumption). Moreover, a low intratemporal elasticity of substitution between environment and goods consumption within a period contributes to a low environmental discount rate in comparison to the consumption discount rate, while a low intertemporal elasticity of substitution between composite consumption of different periods contributes to declining discount rates over time.","PeriodicalId":220068,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate (Topic)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122041265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Esenaliev, J. Karabaeva, Kanat Tilekeyev, A. Aladysheva, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Nazgul Abdrazakova, A. Bolotbekova, Saule Chalbasova, F. Pavan, R. Mogilevskii, Tilman Brück
{"title":"Social Cohesion Through Community-Based Development Project in the Kyrgyz Republic","authors":"D. Esenaliev, J. Karabaeva, Kanat Tilekeyev, A. Aladysheva, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Nazgul Abdrazakova, A. Bolotbekova, Saule Chalbasova, F. Pavan, R. Mogilevskii, Tilman Brück","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2946729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2946729","url":null,"abstract":"This report features the baseline survey findings for the project Social Cohesion through Community-based Development. The baseline survey, administered at the individual, household, and community levels, and with a sample of 2,000 households and over 6,000 individuals, offers comprehensive information on a wide range of topics facilitating a rigorous impact evaluation analysis. The findings based on the data indicate success in randomization, but the levels of outcome indicators are found to be high which raises implications for both research and intervention components of the project.","PeriodicalId":220068,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate (Topic)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115521364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}