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Clean substitutes and the effectiveness of Carbon Footprint Labels vs. Pigovian Subsidies: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(2014)CIES Research PaperWe study how substitutability between clean and dirty alternatives affects the effectiveness of environmental regulation in a field experiment that controls for the choice set of respondents. We consider four product categories with clean and dirty alternatives: (i) cola products in plastic bottles vs. in aluminum cans; (ii) skimmed vs. whole milk; (iii) chicken meat vs. beef meat; and (iv) margarine vs. butter. We employ two neutrally ...Working Paper -
Using avertive expenditures to estimate the demand for public goods
(2015)CIES Research PaperIn response to the perceived quality of a public good, households may choose to incur avertive expenditures as a substitute to its aggregate provision, thereby revealing an (inverse) demand function. When unobserved heterogeneity affects both perceived quality and avertive behavior, identification of the demand function is plagued by a problem of endogeneity. In this paper, I propose to use a first stage model of perceived quality as a ...Working Paper -
Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective
(2015)MIT Joint Program Report SeriesWorking Paper