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Bridging vs. Bonding Social Capital and the Management of Common Pool Resources
Baylis, Kathy - 2013
Social capital can facilitate community governance, but not all social capital is alike. We distinguish bonding social capital (within a village) from bridging social capital (between villages), and we compare their effects on the management of a common pool resource. We develop a theoretical...
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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels
Kaiser, William - 2014
In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...
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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment
Miller, Conrad - 2018
This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000. I document that, conditional on detailed job characteristics, blacks are less likely than whites to work in suburban establishments, and this spatial segregation is stable...
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Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010
Residential segregation by jurisdiction generates disparities in public services and education. The distinctive American pattern - in which blacks live in cities and whites in suburbs - was enhanced by a large black migration from the rural South. I show that whites responded to this black...
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Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010
Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city-suburban borders as the income disparity between...
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White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2011
Between 1940 and 1980, the homeownership rate among metropolitan African-American households increased by 27 percentage points. Nearly three-quarters of this increase occurred in central cities. We show that rising black homeownership in central cities was facilitated by the movement of white...
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Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill
Edlund, Lena - 2015
In 1980, housing prices in large US cities rose with distance from the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that the inversion can be traced to more hours worked by the skilled. Scarce non-market time downgrades the importance of residential space and upgrades that of...
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Elephants
Kremer, Michael; Morcom, Charles - 2022
Existing models of open-access resources are applicable to non-storable resources, such as fish. Many open-access resources, however, are used to produce storable goods. Elephants, rhinos, and tigers are three prominent examples. Anticipated future scarcity of these resources will increase...
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How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action : Evidence from California's Groundwater
Ayres, Andrew - 2017
Collective action to remedy the losses of open access to common-pool resources often is late and incomplete, extending rent dissipation. Examples include persistent over-exploitation of oil fields and ocean fisheries, despite general agreement that production constraints are needed. Transaction...
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Green Technology Diffusion : A Post-Mortem Analysis of the Eco-Patent Commons
Contreras, Jorge L. - 2018
We revisit the effect of the “Eco-Patent Commons” (EcoPC) on the diffusion of patented environmentally friendly … patents covering 94 “green” inventions. Hall and Helmers (2013) suggested that the patents pledged to the commons had the … commons did not increase the diffusion of pledged inventions, and that the EcoPC suffered from several structural and …
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