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Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels: Implications for Land Use, Food and Fuel Prices

Chen, Xiaoguang; Huang, Haixiao; Khanna, Madhu; Önal, Hayri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Biofuel production is being promoted through various policies such as mandates and tax credits. This paper uses a dynamic, spatial, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM), to estimate the effects of these policies on cropland allocation, food and...

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Cities and the Environment

Kahn, Matthew E.; Walsh, Randall Phillip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

attributes such as local air pollution and green space. A city's greenness is a function of both its natural beauty and is an …

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What Are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Capitalization of Amenity Values

Albouy, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This article examines and quantifies the relationship between local amenities and prices in an equilibrium model, demonstrating the role of non-traded goods and federal taxes. I derive formulae using factor shares to infer local land rents, productivity, and the total value of amenities from...

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Migration and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality

Bayer, Patrick; Keohane, Nathaniel O.; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

. Because air pollution is likely to be correlated with unobservable local characteristics such as economic activity, we … instrument for air quality using the contribution of distant sources to local pollution %u2013 excluding emissions from local …. The findings also confirm the importance of instrumenting for local air pollution. …

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Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage: Crop Choice on the Back Forty

Holmes, Thomas; Lee, Sanghoon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We estimate the factors determining specialization of crop choice at the level of individual fields, distinguishing between the role of natural advantage (soil characteristics) and economies of density (scale economies achieved when farmers plant neighboring fields with the same crop). Using...

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The Causes and Consequences of Land Use Regulation: Evidence from Greater Boston

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Ward, Bryce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Over the past 30 years, eastern Massachusetts has seen a remarkable combination of rising home prices and declining supply of new homes. The reductions in new supply don't appear to reflect a real lack of land, but instead reflect a response to man-made restrictions on development. In this...

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Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830

Bogart, Dan; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Between 1660 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates. These estate acts enabled individuals and families to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, and improve land previously bound by inheritance rules and other legal legacies. The loosening of...

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage: Old Idea, New Evidence

Costinot, Arnaud; Donaldson, Dave - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

When asked to name one proposition in the social sciences that is both true and non-trivial, Paul Samuelson famously replied: 'Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage'. Truth, however, in Samuelson's reply refers to the fact that Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage is mathematically...

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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain

Bogart, Daniel; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...

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