Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-11-11DOI: 10.3368/le.98.2.090319-0127r1
Annika Tienhaara, Heini Ahtiainen, E. Pouta, Mikołaj Czajkowski
{"title":"Information Use and Its Effects on the Valuation of Agricultural Genetic Resources","authors":"Annika Tienhaara, Heini Ahtiainen, E. Pouta, Mikołaj Czajkowski","doi":"10.3368/le.98.2.090319-0127r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.2.090319-0127r1","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the effects of information on stated preferences for an unfamiliar environmental good: agricultural genetic resources. We define two groups of respondents based on their use of additional information, and we model information use and its effect on individual preferences and scale. Our findings indicate that sociodemographic and attitudinal variables affect the use of information. We observe individual preference heterogeneity but no significant differences in scale between the information groups. The results highlight the importance of genetic resource conservation and controlling for the effects of information use in choice experiment models for unfamiliar goods.","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43421899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-11-11DOI: 10.3368/le.98.2.122019-0175r1
Christine Bertram, Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, K. Rehdanz
{"title":"Urban Land Use Fragmentation and Human Well-Being","authors":"Christine Bertram, Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, K. Rehdanz","doi":"10.3368/le.98.2.122019-0175r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.2.122019-0175r1","url":null,"abstract":"We study how land use fragmentation affects the life satisfaction of city dwellers. To this end, we calculate fragmentation metrics based on exact geographical coordinates of land use from the European Urban Atlas and of households from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects specifications, we find little effect on life satisfaction when aggregating over land use types. When looking at particular types, however, we find that life satisfaction is positively affected by lower average degrees of soil sealing, larger shares of vegetation, and more heterogeneous configurations of medium- and low-density urban fabric, especially in areas with higher population density.","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46258380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-11-11DOI: 10.3368/le.98.2.092520-0150r1
Andreas Pellegrini, J. Rose, R. Scarpa
{"title":"Multiple Herbicide Use in Cropland: A Discrete-Continuous Model for Stated Choice Data","authors":"Andreas Pellegrini, J. Rose, R. Scarpa","doi":"10.3368/le.98.2.092520-0150r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.2.092520-0150r1","url":null,"abstract":"Using a random utility consistent discrete-continuous model, we analyze decisions by a sample of Australian farmers on the mix of herbicides and their intensity of use. The proposed model is flexible and even accommodates decisions concerning a single herbicide. We use a sequential quadratic programming-based forecasting approach to predict optimal herbicide types and allocations. Structural estimates are used to forecast how price changes affect herbicide demand. The forecasting approach allows for calibration of alternative specific constants to reproduce existing brand market shares.","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48397236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-11-11DOI: 10.3368/le.98.2.051520-0066r
A. Aklilu, Katarina Elofsson
{"title":"Wetland Investment Support Schemes: Adoption and Spatial Interactions","authors":"A. Aklilu, Katarina Elofsson","doi":"10.3368/le.98.2.051520-0066r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.2.051520-0066r","url":null,"abstract":"Agri-environmental investment support that compensates landowners for the costs of wetland creation and restoration is considered an effective policy for increasing biodiversity and reducing nonpoint emissions in agricultural landscapes. This study assesses the extent to which such an agri-environmental scheme is propagated across landowners and examines determinants of the adoption of the policy in Sweden. Using spatiotemporal variations in the implementation of the scheme, we show that endogenous spatial interaction across landowners helps propagate the adoption of the scheme. We did not find spatial interactions to play a role in the disadoption of the scheme.","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41809111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.3368/le.98.1.071520-0106r1
Will Georgic, H. Klaiber
{"title":"A Flood of Construction: The Role of Levees in Urban Floodplain Development","authors":"Will Georgic, H. Klaiber","doi":"10.3368/le.98.1.071520-0106r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.1.071520-0106r1","url":null,"abstract":"We estimate the effect of leveerelated flood-risk reduction on rates of new housing development. Using a fixed-effect Poisson regression and a nonlinear difference-in-differences identification strategy, we find that newly constructed levees increased the rate of residential development by more than 50% compared with areas without levee protection. Contemporary analysis using a duration model indicates effects lasting decades later, with the magnitude of the induced development attenuating over time. Our findings inform discussion of the “levee effect” and highlight the possibility that further flood-risk reduction investment in levees may be partially offset through increased development activity.","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47077988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.3368/le.98.1.073020-0118r1
Mengdi Liu, Ronald J. Shadbegian, Bing Zhang
{"title":"Environmental Regulation, Compliance Strategies, and Productivity: Evidence from China","authors":"Mengdi Liu, Ronald J. Shadbegian, Bing Zhang","doi":"10.3368/le.98.1.073020-0118r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.1.073020-0118r1","url":null,"abstract":"The strong version of the Porter hypothesis indicates that environmental regulations may cause firms to become more productive. However, using a difference-in-differences regression model with propensity score matching, we find that more stringent wastewater discharge requirements faced by textile, printing, and dyeing firms significantly reduced their total factor productivity (TFP) by 13%-14%. We advance the literature by providing evidence that more stringent regulation has a larger negative TFP effect on firms that rely more heavily on end-of-pipe abatement strategies rather than change-in-production-process techniques. Moreover, most of the negative TFP effects of the stricter environmental regulation occur at domestically owned private firms","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47646283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.3368/le.98.1.062619-0084r1
Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, J. Chamberlin, Joseph S. Kanyamuka
{"title":"Soil Investments on Rented versus Owned Plots: Evidence from a Matched Tenant-Landlord Sample in Malawi","authors":"Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, J. Chamberlin, Joseph S. Kanyamuka","doi":"10.3368/le.98.1.062619-0084r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.1.062619-0084r1","url":null,"abstract":"We use a unique data set on matched tenant-landlord pairs in Malawi to compare decisions on smallholder plots that were rented versus those that were owner-operated. Controlling for household and rental-pair fixed effects, we found that some input use (e.g., hybrid maize seed) and soil fertility investments (e.g., manure, compost, minimum tillage) were higher on tenants’ owner-operated plots than on their rented-in plots. Tenants were also less likely to use compost than their landlords. Landlords were less likely to rent out plots with fruit trees. Our results suggest that the expansion of farmland rental markets may exacerbate soil fertility maintenance concerns.","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47642630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.3368/le.98.1.031020-0036r1
Wei Chen, J. E. Flatnes, D. Miteva, H. Klaiber
{"title":"The Impact of Deforestation on Nature-Based Recreation: Evidence from Citizen Science Data in Mexico","authors":"Wei Chen, J. E. Flatnes, D. Miteva, H. Klaiber","doi":"10.3368/le.98.1.031020-0036r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.1.031020-0036r1","url":null,"abstract":"We use citizen science eBird data to investigate the effect of deforestation on birdwatching across Mexico. Using detailed data on individual trips reported to eBird, we construct annual count data on visits to 1,810 Mexican municipalities from 2008 to 2016 to examine how deforestation affects visitation patterns. We find that a municipality, experiencing an increase in deforestation equivalent to the average deforestation over our study period, would see birdwatching visits decrease by 4.4% a year. The results also provide an application of citizen science data using an underused source of information on economic behavior in an otherwise limited data environment.","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41868568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.3368/le.98.1.040720-0050r1
T. Cameron, Sonja H. Kolstoe
{"title":"Using Auxiliary Population Samples for Sample-Selection Correction in Models Based on Crowd-Sourced Volunteered Geographic Information","authors":"T. Cameron, Sonja H. Kolstoe","doi":"10.3368/le.98.1.040720-0050r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.1.040720-0050r1","url":null,"abstract":"Data from citizen science (CS) projects (and some social media) can offer selected samples with extensive information about human interactions with the natural world. Independently, we elicit levels of engagement with the eBird project from members of the eBird CS project and from a general-population sample. The general-population sample allows an ordered-probit model to explain propensities to engage with eBird at different levels, which we transfer to predict selection-correction terms for our independent sample of eBird members. We illustrate our method with a question posed only to our eBird-member survey sample about the radii of their individual spatial consideration sets for typical one-day birding excursions.","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42990448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Land EconomicsPub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.3368/le.98.1.110519-0159r2
Jayash Paudel
{"title":"Environmental Disasters and Property Values: Evidence from Nepal’s Forest Fires","authors":"Jayash Paudel","doi":"10.3368/le.98.1.110519-0159r2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/le.98.1.110519-0159r2","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses satellite data on real-time active fire locations to evaluate the effect of forest fires on property values in Nepal. Results show that an additional unit increase in fire radiative power from last month’s forest fires causes a 0.61% decrease in residential property values. Property values decline by 4.48% for every additional unit increase in the number of forest fire incidents over the past year. These estimates suggest that policy makers should prioritize wildfire-risk awareness and fire-prevention programs in areas with higher levels of declined property values associated with recurring forest fire incidents.","PeriodicalId":51378,"journal":{"name":"Land Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42235730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}