Wumeng He, Orapan Nabangchang, Krista Erdman, Alex C A Vanko, Prapti Poudel, Chandra Giri, Jeffrey R Vincent
{"title":"Inferring Economic Impacts from a Program's Physical Outcomes: An Application to Forest Protection in Thailand.","authors":"Wumeng He, Orapan Nabangchang, Krista Erdman, Alex C A Vanko, Prapti Poudel, Chandra Giri, Jeffrey R Vincent","doi":"10.1007/s10640-021-00644-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-021-00644-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Economists typically estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) when evaluating government programs. The economic interpretation of the ATT can be ambiguous when program outcomes are measured in purely physical terms, as they often are in evaluations of environmental programs (e.g., avoided deforestation). This paper presents an approach for inferring economic impacts from physical outcomes when the ATT is estimated using propensity-score matching. For the case of forest protection, we show that a protection program's ex post economic impact, as perceived by the government agency responsible for protection decisions, can be proxied by a weighted ATT, with the weights derived from the propensity of being treated (i.e., protected). We apply this new metric to mangrove protection in Thailand during 1987-2000. We find that the government's protection program avoided the loss of 12.8% of the economic value associated with the protected mangrove area. This estimate is about a quarter smaller than the conventional ATT for avoided deforestation, 17.3 percentage points. The difference between the two measures indicates that the program tended to be less effective at reducing deforestation in locations where the government perceived the net benefits of protection as being greater, which is the opposite of the relationship that would characterize a maximally effective program.</p>","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 3","pages":"845-876"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9974697/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9100759","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":"Human Capital, Trade Competitiveness and Environmental Efficiency Convergence Across Asia Pacific Countries.","authors":"Florence Appiah-Twum, Xingle Long","doi":"10.1007/s10640-023-00758-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00758-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study mainly investigates 14 Asia Pacific economies' environmental efficiency. Departing from previous studies ignoring environmental technology heterogeneity, we evaluate environmental efficiency through metafrontier super epsilon based model (EBM). We compare environmental efficiency convergence across different regions via unit root test and truncated regressions. We analyze how trade competitiveness impact environmental efficiency. We also explore effect of green technology and human capital on environmental efficiency from the perspective of endogenous growth. Our findings indicate that stochastic and absolute β-convergence tendencies were confirmed. Human capital can enhance environmental efficiency convergence. Trade competitiveness showed a mixed impact on environmental efficiency convergence, confirming scale, composition and technical effects. It is better to enhance human capital, strengthening environmental regulations under international competition as well as relentlessly pursuing green industrialization across Asia Pacific countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"85 1","pages":"109-132"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846664/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9690555","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":"Adjusting and Calibrating Elicited Values Based on Follow-up Certainty Questions: A Meta-analysis","authors":"J. Penn, Wuyang Hu","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00742-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00742-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 1","pages":"919-946"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46949670","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}
N. Englezos, X. Kartala, P. Koundouri, M. Tsionas, A. Alamanos
{"title":"A Novel HydroEconomic - Econometric Approach for Integrated Transboundary Water Management Under Uncertainty","authors":"N. Englezos, X. Kartala, P. Koundouri, M. Tsionas, A. Alamanos","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00744-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00744-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 1","pages":"975-1030"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52283177","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":"Diverging Beliefs on Climate Change and Climate Policy: The Role of Political Orientation","authors":"Leonard Knollenborg, Stephan Sommer","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00747-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00747-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 1","pages":"1031-1049"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46357901","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}
Oliver Ruhnau, Anselm Eicke, Raffaele Sgarlato, T. Tröndle, Lion Hirth
{"title":"Cost-Potential Curves of Onshore Wind Energy: the Role of Disamenity Costs","authors":"Oliver Ruhnau, Anselm Eicke, Raffaele Sgarlato, T. Tröndle, Lion Hirth","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00746-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00746-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45687860","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":"Can Transverse Eco-compensation Mechanism Correct Resource Misallocation in Watershed Environmental Governance? A Cost-benefit Analysis of the Pilot Project of Xin’an River in China","authors":"Hongzhen Zhang, Ling‐Yun He, Zhongxiang Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00743-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00743-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 1","pages":"947-973"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41326361","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}