{"title":"Wallace E. Oates Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award","authors":"Charles A. Taylor","doi":"10.1086/723734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723734","url":null,"abstract":": Land policy has major implications for human health and economic development via its in fl uence on outcomes like water pollution, food security, real estate development, and climate change. My research focuses on land use policy in the context of public good provision, valuation of externalities and ecosystem services, and estimating regulatory costs and bene fi ts — often utiliz-ing satellite products to fi ll data gaps to help answer policy-relevant questions. The fi rst chapter of my dissertation investigates the impact of pesticides on human health and welfare using cicada emergence as an ecologically-driven natural experiment to explore the social cost of pesticides use in agriculture. The second chapter analyzes the relationship between irrigation and climate change, showing how adaptive measures can create negative externalities like aquifer drawdown and salinization. The third chapter provides an estimate of the value of wetlands for fl ood mitigation, an important topic in relation to the Clean Water Act and future climate change. Overall, these chapters explore both how humans affect the land and the reverse feedback of how land use decisions affect human welfare.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47285622","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":"Remotely Incorrect? Accounting for Nonclassical Measurement Error in Satellite Data on Deforestation","authors":"J. Alix-Garcia, Daniel L. Millimet","doi":"10.1086/723723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723723","url":null,"abstract":"Research relying on remotely sensed data on land use and deforestation has exploded in recent years. While satellite-based measures have clear advantages in terms of coverage, the presence of measurement error within these products is often overlooked. Here, we detail the econometric implications of these errors when analyzing the determinants of binary measures of deforestation or forest cover. We then discuss estimators that exploit knowledge of the remote-sensing process to obtain consistent estimates. Finally, we assess our estimators via simulation and an impact evaluation of a conservation program in Mexico. We find that both geography and characteristics of the raw data can lead to systematic underreporting of deforestation. However, accounting for these sources of error, which are common across many satellite-based metrics, can limit the bias from misclassification.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46818742","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":"Climate Policy and Resource Extraction with Variable Markups and Imperfect Substitutes","authors":"M. Curuk, Suphi Şen","doi":"10.1086/723704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723704","url":null,"abstract":"In a resource extraction model that features imperfect substitution and endogenous market power, we analytically characterize the effect of anticipated future demand shocks on the resource extraction path. We show that the resource owner’s market share and reserves-to-extraction ratio are sufficient to calculate the supply response under constant elasticity of substitution between alternative energy resources. The analytical characterization of the extraction response allows us to conduct scenario analyses based on available oil market data. Applying data on OPEC, we find a relatively small increase in current extraction due to an anticipated decrease in the price of alternative energy resources, which implies that endogenous markup adjustments of OPEC countries largely reduce the adverse consequences of anticipated climate policies due to intertemporal carbon leakage.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45826697","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":"Does the Selective Erasure of Protected Areas Raise Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?","authors":"D. Keleş, A. Pfaff, Michael B. Mascia","doi":"10.1086/723543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723543","url":null,"abstract":"Protected areas (PAs) are the leading policy to lower deforestation. Yet resistance by land users leads PAs to be created in remote sites, lowering impact. Resistance continues after PA creation, with both illegal deforestation and advocacy for PADDD, that is, reducing PA status (downgrading) or PA size (partial or full erasure, downsizing or degazettement). For the Brazilian Amazon, we estimate 2010–15 forest impacts of 2009–12 PA erasures, on average and for distinct states. Before panel-DID regression, to find similar controls we matched using static characteristics and 8–10 years of pretreatment deforestation. PA erasures should raise deforestation if erased PAs faced and blocked pressures. Consistent with this, three conditions for “environmental selection” yielded little short-run impact from PADDD: low pressures, unblocked higher pressures, and pressures blocked less by those PAs selected for erasures. Yet for “development selection,” with PA erasures in sites with pressures plus enforcement, PADDD yielded increased deforestation.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47034143","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":"Are Electric Cars and Solar Panels Complements?","authors":"Xueying Lyu","doi":"10.1086/723494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723494","url":null,"abstract":"Both electric cars and residential solar panels are environmentally friendly durable goods that are often subsidized. The relationship between the two in demand will affect the efficiency of a range of green policies. This study explores the complementarity between the two goods, taking an instrumental variables approach. Using global horizontal irradiance as an instrument, I find that each existing solar adoption leads to approximately 0.184 additional electric car sales, including 0.121 battery electric vehicles and 0.063 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Utilizing availability of high occupancy vehicle lanes and gasoline prices as instruments, I find that each electric vehicle ownership leads to roughly 0.26 additional solar installations. The complementarity mainly comes from lack of charging stations and insufficient compensation for excess solar energy sold back to the grid. The findings imply substantial spillovers from policies affecting either choice, changing the cost-benefit calculus for a range of green policies.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44477417","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 Ambiguity of Fishing for Fun","authors":"J. Holzer, K. McConnell","doi":"10.1086/723495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723495","url":null,"abstract":"Recreational fishing is among the most popular outdoor recreational activities in the world. However, uncertainty in angler response to changes in regulation has limited managers’ ability to prevent overfishing. We need to understand the heuristics anglers use to overcome informational and cognitive constraints that may limit their ability to assess stochastic attributes such as catch and environmental amenities. Using data from choice experiments, we specify and estimate preferences that rely on the theory of decision under unknown risks or ambiguity. We build on the observation that anglers interpret possession limits as targets or signals on stock productivity that anchor their expectations on retained catch, to specify a multiple prior model that relies on less onerous assumptions on anglers’ information and numeracy than conventional demand models. We integrate the economic submodel into a bioeconomic model to show that our specification provides better out-of-sample predictions than linear and CARA utility models.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47027397","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":"Does Information Disclosure Reduce Drinking Water Violations in the United States?","authors":"J. Baker, Lori S. Bennear, Sheila M. Olmstead","doi":"10.1086/722619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722619","url":null,"abstract":"The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments required community water systems to disclose violations of drinking water standards to their customers in annual water quality reports. We explore the impact of three methods of disclosure on health-based drinking water quality violations using a matching and differences-in-differences framework with a national data set of drinking water quality violations from 1990 to 2001. We find that this information disclosure requirement reduced drinking water violations significantly and that the primary effect of disclosure on violations persists for at least four years after policy implementation. We find no evidence, however, that water systems trade these potentially more salient violation reductions for potentially less salient reductions in violations of other standards, nor do we find any evidence that water systems responded differentially to disclosure based on the demographic or political characteristics of their customers.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45141992","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":"Compliance and Truthfulness: Leveraging Peer Information with Competitive Audit Mechanisms","authors":"T. Goeschl, Marcel Oestreich, A. Soldá","doi":"10.1086/723110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723110","url":null,"abstract":"How to design audit mechanisms that harness the benefits of self-reporting for achieving compliance with regulatory targets while limiting misreporting is a pressing question in many regulatory contexts, from climate policies to public health. Contrasting random audit and competitive audit mechanisms, this study theoretically and experimentally examines their performance in regulating socially undesirable emissions when peer information about others’ emissions is present or absent. Our focus is on the compliance of emission levels with regulatory targets, going beyond existing results on truthfulness of reporting. Confirming theoretical predictions, the experiment shows that in contrast to the random audit mechanism, the competitive audit mechanism can leverage peer information for compliance: emission levels are closer to the social optimum. Yet, emission levels fall somewhat short of full compliance. The results highlight the considerable potential of competitive audit mechanisms for achieving not only more truthfulness but also more compliance.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46465224","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 Costs and Environmental Justice Concerns of NIMBY in Solid Waste Disposal","authors":"Phuong Ho","doi":"10.1086/722613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722613","url":null,"abstract":"Many recent US Congresses have proposed bills that allow state and local governments to restrict interjurisdictional waste shipments. Using data on intercounty waste flows in California and a random utility model of haulers’ decisions about where to deposit waste from each county, this study examines the economic costs of import bans and import taxes and the implications on the distribution of waste disposal by race (and ethnicity). I find that NIMBY-motivated laws would reduce intercounty waste transport at substantial economic cost. Furthermore, a NIMBY law enacted in a county, despite reducing the county’s imports, could increase total intercounty waste in the whole state, generating additional external costs of transportation. A universal import ban in all counties would reduce transboundary waste, but it would lead to substitution of waste away from facilities near white residents and toward facilities near Hispanic residents, exacerbating distributional concerns.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48639111","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":"Using Targeting to Optimize Program Design: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Experiment","authors":"Todd D. Gerarden, Muxi Yang","doi":"10.1086/722833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722833","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the potential for targeted treatment assignment rules to improve the performance of a large-scale behavioral intervention to encourage households to conserve energy. We derive treatment rules based on observable household characteristics that maximize the expected benefits of the intervention. Targeting treatment using transparent and easily implemented rules could yield significant gains; the energy savings from optimal treatment assignments are predicted to be double those achieved by the intervention as implemented. Predicted cost savings from targeting are even larger. Our results underscore the potential for targeted treatment assignment to generate significant benefits in many domains.","PeriodicalId":47114,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44991832","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}