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The Role of Prices and Information in Residential Energy Consumption and Investment Behavior
(2012)
Good stewardship of the planet's natural resources is the central challenge of our age, and energy generation and usage has become an important dimension of the current debate about sustainability. Americans spend approximately ...
Implications of heterogeneity in discrete choice analysis
(2013)
This dissertation carries out a series of Monte Carlo simulations seeking the
implications for welfare estimates from three research practices commonly implemented in empirical applications of mixed logit and latent class ...
Wind Power Development in the United States: Effects of Policies and Electricity Transmission Congestion
(2013)
In this dissertation, I analyze the drivers of wind power development in the United States as well as the relationship between renewable power plant location and transmission congestion and emissions levels. I first examine ...
Essays on the Economics of Automobile Fuel Economy
(2013)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that analyze issues relating to automobile fuel economy. Chapter 1 discusses automobile fuel economy regulations in the United States. The new U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy ...
ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS
(2012)
Understanding the potential link between environmental regulations and economic activities is crucial to both the regulated industries and policy makers. This dissertation explores three key questions in order to understand ...
Essays on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for Agriculture
(2013)
Over the past twenty years economists have developed econometric approaches for estimating the impacts of climate change on agriculture by accounting for farmer adaptation implicitly. These reduced-form approaches are ...
ESSAYS ON DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS
(2013)
Chapter 1 shows the implications of credit and labor market imperfections on gender differences in agricultural labor productivity, especially highlighting how both imperfections negatively affect female productivity by ...
An analysis of regulatory decisions on food-use pesticides under the Food Quality and Protection Act
(2012)
To ensure the safety of older pesticides used in the United States, the EPA required the reregistration of pesticide uses which were first introduced before 1984. Using a dataset of reregistration outcomes for 2722 pesticide ...
ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RANDOM SHOCKS: AN APPLICATION TO THE AMERICAN LOBSTER FISHERY OF LONG ISLAND SOUND
(2012)
In this dissertation, I examine how environmental and anthropogenic factors and autocorrelated disturbances affect the dynamics of an exploited renewable resource. The analysis focuses on Long Island Sound (US) for which ...
What Do Property Values Really Tell Us? Evidence From Revealed and Stated Preference Studies
(2011)
In the absence of markets for environmental quality, researchers resort to stated and revealed preference techniques to estimate the benefits of environmental programs. One of the most widely used revealed preference ...