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Previous studies on the impact of the impact of subsidized housing on neighborhood property values have not been able to provide any consensus due to the implementation of estimation strategies that have serious if ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first chapter examines the effect of the composition of federal and state government spending on SO2 air concentrations in the US. The results indicate that a reallocation of spending from RME to PME at the state and ...

This dissertation investigates the individual characteristics correlated with auction participation decisions using data from two commercial fishing license buybacks. I use the joint empirical analysis of stated and revealed ...

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 ...

This thesis exploits a unique micro dataset that uses a natural field experiment to identify indirect effects of formal savings access on de facto ineligibles residing in the same community. Despite widespread interest in ...

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 ...