The federal government now confronts considerable political pressure to add CO2 to the existing set of criteria air pollutants. As with current criteria pollutants, proposals call for control of CO2, assuming that the control of the each of the three criteria pollutants is separable from the...

We use estimates of parents' discount rate, inferred from their decisions to treat their children's body burdens of lead, to test empirically a model of transmission of cognitive skills from parents to children. The development of a child's cognitive skills depends in part upon the specific...

We estimate a directional distance function to assess the impacts of multiple time-varying parent and child inputs on a cluster of jointly produced child outcomes for children aged 7 to 13 years. The directional distance function specification avoids several well-known empirical problems...

This paper describes alternative empirical techniques of economic analysis to assess the monetary value of human health, and outlines the issues that arise when these techniques are transported to value environmental hazard interventions intended to improve the health of young children. It...

We propose a static three-stage incentive-compatible, budget-balanced, execution-contingent scheme for a regulator to allocate biodiversity protection responsibilities across a landscape mosaic having multiple value-interdependent owners. The scheme motivates owners to truthfully report their...

We adopt a framework to specify a household's child development technology with a set of interdependent inputs and outputs, finding significant, productive dynamic effects due to young children's Head Start participation. Our panel data estimates show that initial counter-productive partial...

We design an experiment to test whether the rationality induced by market discipline spills over to nonmarket settings - a rationality spillover. Our results confirm this new phenomenon. The rationality induced by market discipline extends to the nonmarket setting, and these spillover effects...

We study the trade-offs faced by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that serve as platforms through which consumers access both television and internet services. As online streaming video improves, these providers may respond by attempting to steer consumers away from streaming video toward their...