Essays Behavioral Environmental Economics and Statistics
The first two chapters of this thesis focus on behavioral environmental economics. In Chapter 1, I develop and estimate a new measure of the effect of marginal emission reductions on tangible climate change outcomes. I show that people have fundamental misperceptions about their impact and that prov...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/693287 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/693287 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Behavioral environmental economics 33 |
| Sumario: | The first two chapters of this thesis focus on behavioral environmental economics. In Chapter 1, I develop and estimate a new measure of the effect of marginal emission reductions on tangible climate change outcomes. I show that people have fundamental misperceptions about their impact and that providing my estimates increases mitigation behavior. In Chapter 2, we develop a theoretical framework for optimal green retailing and use it to evaluate a nationwide environmental pricing campaign by a retailer, as well as counterfactual policies. We find that the campaign resulted in environmental gains and an increase in total surplus, but cross-subsidies and national taxation would yield even better outcomes. In Chapter 3, we document and address problems with a methodology to aggregate results from multiple statistical analyses. Our estimator has improved statistical properties and leads to more nuanced results. |
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