Readings

Recommended readings

• Books:

  • Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School―But Didn’t (MIT Press)
    • Having this book is like having Dr. Bellemare as your advisor, but you don’t have to pay the tuition like I did.
    • It is now out and available here.

• Papers:

  • 1. Environmental and Resource Economics

    • 1.1 Forest Economics

      • 1.1.1 Forest&PES
        • 1.1.1.1 Alix-Garcia, Jennifer, and Hendrik Wolff. “Payment for ecosystem services from forests.” Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ. 6, no. 1 (2014): 361-380.
          OSS: This article reviews the forest-related payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes covering the related issues, including research on targeting, contract design, environmental effectiveness, challenges to program implementation, spillovers, and distributional considerations of conditional cash transfers, and highlighting areas of potential future research.

    • 1.2 Environmental policy instruments

      • 1.2.1 Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)

        • 1.2.1.1 Zilberman, D., Lipper, L., & McCarthy, N. (2008). When could payments for environmental services benefit the poor?. Environment and Development Economics, 13(3), 255-278.
          OSS: According the model with utility function u(Q,E,Z), where ES and agricultural productivity are negatively correlated and the poor own lands of low agricultural quality, they stand to gain from PES programs.

        • 1.2.1.2 Zilberman, D., Lipper, L., & McCarthy, N. (2008). When could payments for environmental services benefit the poor?. Environment and Development Economics, 13(3), 255-278.
          OSS: According the model with utility function u(Q,E,Z), where ES and agricultural productivity are negatively correlated and the poor own lands of low agricultural quality, they stand to gain from PES programs.

    • 1.3 Policy Analysis

      • 1.3.1 Wetlands
        • 1.3.1.1 Taylor, C. A., & Druckenmiller, H. (2022). Wetlands, flooding, and the clean water act. American Economic Review, 112(4), 1334-1363. OSS: