This study evaluates the effects of two exogenous interventions targeting individuals with both pecuniary and nonpecuniary incentives, increasing the moral and monetary costs of residential water use. The first intervention consisted of a social information campaign appealing to norm-based...

Quantifying drought’s economic impacts has been key for decision-making to build future strategies and improve the development and implementation of proactive plans. However, climate change is changing drought frequency, intensity, and durability. These changes imply modifications of their...

The inclusion of non-monetary payments may be appropriate in developing countries. In this paper, we depart from this previous literature by adopting a non-excluding approach between two payment alternatives, which we claim is appropriate in urban, middle-or high-income settings. We adopt two...

Research on innovation strategy, which focuses on what type of innovation that firms decide to implement, has primarily focused on dichotomic (yes or no) options and is mostly based on the determinants of technological (product and process) innovations. This paper extends the study of innovation...

We explore whether providing ocean acidification (OA) information affects consumers’ preferences for seafood products in a middle-income country in the southern hemisphere. Seafood attributes include shell size and appearance, meat color, texture, taste, nutritional composition, product...

In defining the guidelines of central governments, regional and local, the participation of civil society has been incorporated as a guiding principle in the construction of development strategies. This initiative involves promoting the participation of people and strengthening civil...

The goal of this research is to find the determinants of individual participation on civil society organizations in Chile through a social capital approach, and to evaluate whether there is a relationship between participation and economic welfare. Several regressions that correct for double...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the determinants of technical efficiency of wheat small farmers in Bío Bío Region, especially to investigate the relation between social capital, measured through participation in organizations, and technical efficiency. Using information of the VII...