Health shocks and natural resource management: Evidence from Western Kenya
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Health Shocks and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Western Kenya.
Poverty and altered planning horizons brought on by the HIV/AIDS epidemic can change individual discount rates, altering incentives to conserve natural resources. Using longitudinal household survey data from western Kenya, we estimate the effects of health status on investments in soil quality, as indicated by households' agricultural land fallowing decisions. We first show that this effect is...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0095-0696
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2014.10.006