Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An experiment that subsidizes a random subset of traders who buy cocoa from farmers Sierra Leone illustrates this idea. Interpreting treatment-control differences prices and quantities purchased through model Cournot competition reveals differentiation between is low. Combining result with quasi-experimental ...

T his study investigates the relationship between quality of environment and democracy among different countries over the period of 2002 - 2012. Democracy and accumulated democracy indices have been considered as political inequality variables influencing the quality of the environment among different countries in the reduced form of Kuznets’ environmental curve (EKC) hypotheses mode...

We examine the impact of temperature on mortality in Mexico using daily data over period 1998–2017 and find that 3.8 percent deaths are caused by suboptimal (26,000 every year). However, 92 weather-related induced cold (<12°C) or mildly ( 12–20°C) days only 2 outstandingly hot (>32°C). Furthermore, temperatures twice as likely to kill people bottom half income distribution. Finally, we sh...

While the Earth system is in overshoot mode with an imminent threat to our social, ecological, and economic systems, cultural evolutionary theory may hold key more successfully addressing many of sustainability challenges. With aim illuminating potential studying evolution a sustainable bioeconomy through lens, this article outlines contours novel research avenue form five propositions. It cont...

Using detailed household-level data from Malawi on physical quantities of agricultural outputs and inputs, we measure farm total factor productivity (TFP), controlling for land quality, rain, transitory shocks. We find that operated size capital are essentially unrelated to TFP, implying substantial misallocation. The output gain a reallocation factors their efficient use among existing farmers...