Category: Latin America

The welfare costs of unreliable water service

Abstract: Throughout the developing world, many water distribution systems are unreliable. As a result, it becomes necessary for each household to store its own water as a hedge against this uncertainty. Since arrivals of water are not synchronized acros… more »

International Fuel Tax Assessment: An Application to Chile

Abstract Most developed and developing country governments levy taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel used by motor vehicles. However, outside of the United States and Europe, automobile and heavy truck externalities have not been quantified, so policymaker… more »

Private valuation of carbon sequestration in forest plantations

Abstract: Approval of the Clean Development Mechanism, provided for in the Kyoto Protocol, enables countries with afforested land to trade in carbon emissions reduction certificates related to carbon dioxide equivalent quantities (CO2-e) stored within a… more »

Measuring the Social Recreation Per-Day Net Benefit of Wildlife Amenities of a National Park: A Count-Data Travel Cost Approach

Abstract. Isabel Mendes and Isabel Proença applied count-data travel cost methods to a truncated sample of visitors, to estimate the average CS per each day of visit of an individual, visiting the Peneda- Gerês National Park to enjoy their natural facili… more »

The Environmental Impacts of Soybean Expansion and Infrastructure Development in Brazil's Amazon Basin

GDAE’s research program on Agricultural Expansion and Climate Change has published a new Working Paper highlighting the environmental costs of agricultural expansion in the Amazon. For decades, the improvement of transportation infrastructure in the Braz… more »