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on Agricultural Economics |
| By: | Sylvie Avallone (UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement); Sophie Nicklaus (CSGA - Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation [Dijon] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Dijon - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement - UBE - Université Bourgogne Europe); Céline Giner (OCDE - Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques = Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development); Juliana F. W. Cohen (Merrimack College, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health); Stéphane Verguet (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) |
| Abstract: | The COVID pandemic has highlighted the essential role of school meal programs, not only for education but also for children's nutrition. In France, school meals are shaped by ambitious policies to ensure their safety and nutritional quality, while promoting sustainable eating practices and awareness of environmental and agricultural challenges. In this article, we used the case study of France to discuss the multi-sectoral value of these programs. The economic value of school meals in France amounts to €8.2 billion annually, of which 2.8 billion are dedicated to food purchases. Since 2022, the EGAlim and Climate and Resilience laws require canteens to offer one vegetarian meal per week and to source at least 50% of sustainable products with positive environmental or social impacts (e.g., certified products, organic farming, and short supply chains). These laws represent a potential support of €1.4 billion for more sustainable agriculture. School canteens also offer a unique opportunity for food education, allowing children to discover new types of food, notably with vegetarian menus. They can contribute to preventing childhood obesity by reducing exposure to ultra-processed foods. Additionally, they play an important role in social inclusion by providing subsidized meals for disadvantaged children. However, disparities in access to canteens persist due to the cost of meals, dietary restrictions or the presence of a parent at home. In conclusion, school meal programs in France generate significant multi-sectoral value in the areas of education, nutrition, agriculture, and social inclusion and support the transition to more sustainable food systems for future generations. |
| Keywords: | vegetarian meals, public policies, food education, nutrition, equity, climate resilience, economic value, organic farming |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05211597 |
| By: | Farid Farrokhi; Elliot Kang; Heitor S. Pellegrina; Sebastian Sotelo |
| Abstract: | We study deforestation in a dynamic world trade system. We first document that between 1990-2020: (i) global forest area has decreased by 7.1 percent, with large heterogeneity across countries, (ii) deforestation is associated with expansions of agricultural land use, (iii) deforestation is larger in countries with a comparative advantage in agriculture, and (iv) population growth causes deforestation. Motivated by these facts, we build a model in which structural change and comparative advantage determine the extent, location, and timing of deforestation. Using the model, we obtain conditions under which reductions in trade costs and tariffs reduce global deforestation. Quantitatively, eliminating global agricultural tariffs has limited impacts on global forest area, leads to substantial forest reallocation across countries, and results in net welfare benefits. |
| Keywords: | international trade, deforestation, dynamics, land use, trade policy |
| JEL: | F1 F18 Q5 N5 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12077 |
| By: | Soukayna Naji (UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement); Joaquin Ameller Pavez (UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement); Sophie Drogué (UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement); Paule Moustier (UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) |
| Abstract: | As global urbanization accelerates, food security and the resilience of urban supply chains have become critical issues, particularly in West Africa, where the urban population is projected to reach 65.7% by 2050. This study, based on food flow data collected from 2013 to 2017 by Karg et al. (2023), analyzes the spatial organization of supply inflows in four West African cities: Bamenda, Bamako, Ouagadougou, and Tamale. A constraint-based model was developed to assess both the efficiency and resilience of supply chains in response to various shock scenarios, such as climate disruptions or fuel price increases. The results show that several factorsincluding product type, perishability, geographic origin, seasonal variations, and the specific characteristics of each city-shape the organization of food supplies. These dynamics play a central role in the cities' capacity to maintain stable supplies and adapt to crises, thereby enhancing the resilience of urban food systems. The model calibration will further enable a detailed interpretation of future results through the lens of supply dynamics and resilience. |
| Keywords: | Supply Chains, Resilience, Constraint-Based Model, Supply Flows (inflows), Spatial Organization, West Africa, Food Security, Urbanization |
| Date: | 2024–12–05 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05216035 |
| By: | Mao, Haiou; Görg, Holger |
| Abstract: | Geographical Indication (GI) is a rising policy in developing countries, which has been relatively neglected in the existing literature. This article studies Chinese agricultural GIs and its impact on firms’ exports. By relating newly authorized GIs with firm‐product‐location‐destination level customs trade data according to GIs’ geographical coverage and product type, we estimate the impact of these new GIs on firm's exports. Importantly, we can distinguish GIs with and without quality supervision. For the latter we find negative impacts on export quality, which is not the case for GIs with quality supervision. We interpret this in the context of our theoretical framework as evidence for quality free‐riding, where individual firms have an incentive to lower the quality of the export product. We show that this negative effect is less, the more concentrated an industry is or the more GIs there are for a particular product. Furthermore, our results suggest that the China‐EU agreement on Geographical Indications may play the role of quality supervision and prevent the possibility of free‐riding. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural Geographical Indications, China, export quality, free-riding |
| JEL: | F10 Q18 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:ifwkie:323987 |
| By: | Domenico de Paola (IBBR CNR - Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse = Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources - CNR - National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche); Francesca Taranto (IBBR CNR - Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse = Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources - CNR - National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche); Soraya Mousavi (IBBR CNR - Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse = Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources - CNR - National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche); Francesco Mercati; Wilma Sabetta (IBBR CNR - Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse = Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources - CNR - National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche); Marina Tumolo (IBBR CNR - Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse = Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources - CNR - National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche); Sharif Islam (Naturalis Biodiversity Center [Leiden]); Roland Pieruschka (IBG - Institute of Bio- and Geosciences [Jülich] - FZJ - Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | Centre de recherche de Jülich | Jülich Research Centre - Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association); Andrea Scaloni; Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon (IFB-core - Institut Français de Bioinformatique - CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, URGI - Ressources génomique-info - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Lorenzo Maggioni; Sandra Goritschnig (Alliance - Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) [Rome] - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]); Filippo Guzzon; Massimo Ianigro (IRSA - CNR Water Research Institute - CNR - National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche); Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin; Giovanni Giuliano (ENEA - Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove Tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile = Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development); Gabriele Bucci (IBBR CNR - Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse = Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources - CNR - National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) |
| Abstract: | Background: Plant genetic resources (PGRs) are crucial for sustainable agriculture and food security, but the roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) lacks a dedicated research infrastructure (RI) for their systematic cataloguing, safeguarding and improvement. To fill this gap, we propose a new RI concept specifically for PGRs in Europe. Scope: The proposed RI, called ‘Plant Genetic Resources Community for Europe' (GRACE), is aimed to support current and future research projects on PGRs, enhance collaboration across European countries, unlock the adaptive potential of crop biodiversity preserved in PGR collections, and strengthen the current and future sustainability of the food chain in Europe. As part of the preparatory project ‘Promoting a Plant Genetic Resource Community for Europe' (PRO-GRACE), we analysed the current landscape of European RIs supporting PGR-related research in complementary fields regarding research aims, research products and features/services. Conclusions: Through a robust quantitative approach, we have identified gaps and potential synergies among six RIs from the Health and Food and Environment domains of the ESFRI roadmap. These findings were discussed in the context of European PGR research priorities and current societal needs, and the implementation of GRACE was proposed as a strategic response to these challenges. |
| Keywords: | genebanks, ex situ and in situ PGR conservation, plant genetic resources, GRACE-RI, research infrastructure, ESFRI roadmap, Crop diversity, gap analysis, synergy analysis |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05222930 |
| By: | Sebastian G. Nosenzo |
| Abstract: | The increasing global demand for sustainable agricultural practices and effective waste management has highlighted the potential of biochar as a multifaceted solution. This study evaluates the economic viability of sugarcane bagasse-based biochar in Brazil, focusing on its potential to enhance agricultural productivity and contribute to environmental sustainability. While existing literature predominantly explores the production, crop yield benefits, and carbon sequestration capabilities of biochar, there is a notable gap in comprehensive economic modeling and viability analysis for the region. This paper aims to fill this gap by employing a scenario-based economic modeling approach, incorporating relevant economic models. Findings include that biochar implementation can be economically viable for medium and large sugarcane farms (20000-50000 hectares) given the availability of funding, breaking even in about 7.5 years with an internal rate of return of 18% on average. For small farms, biochar can only be viable when applying biochar to the soil, which in all scenarios is found to be the more profitable practice by a large margin. Sensitivity analyses found that generally, biochar becomes economically feasible at biochar carbon credit prices above $120 USD/tCO2e, and at sugarcane bagasse availability percentages above 60%. While the economic models are well-grounded in existing literature, the production of biochar at the studied scales is not yet widespread, especially in Brazil and uncertainties can result. Reviewing the results, the land application scenario was found to be the most viable, and large farms saw the best results, highlighting the importance of scale to biochar operation. Small and medium farms with no land application were concluded to have no and questionable viability, respectively. |
| Date: | 2025–08 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2508.12454 |
| By: | USDA Economic Research Service; Farm Foundation |
| Abstract: | The symposium aimed to convene and develop a network of researchers and stakeholders to engage in a productive discussion focused on farm labor issues. A primary goal of the symposium was to strengthen and enhance ongoing farm labor research, focusing on four key themes: 1. Trends in the farm labor force—including presentations on worker migration and the H-2A Temporary Agricultural Program ---- 2. Labor costs—including presentations on the effects of H-2A AEWR and overtime laws on farmworkers ---- 3. Farm worker conditions—including presentations on a) workplace safety; b) effects of climate change on worker health; c) workplace harassment ---- 4. Workforce development—trends in training current farmworkers and a new generation to develop, operate, and repair new technologies in the field and lead packing operations. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Climate Change, Crop Production/Industries, Dairy Farming, Health Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade, Labor and Human Capital, Livestock Production/Industries, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession |
| Date: | 2024–09 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uersmp:369001 |
| By: | Caunedo, Julieta; Felix, Mayara; Manysheva, Kristina |
| Abstract: | The study examines how labor market shocks originating in non-agriculture affect the organization of agricultural production. Using data from Brazil between 1986 and 2017, it shows that the entry of large non-agricultural firms leads to persistent increases in local wages, declines in agricultural employment, and a shift toward more capital-intensive farming. Farms consolidate, the number of small operations declines, and mechanization increases. To study the magnitude of this reorganization, we develop a general equilibrium model which predicts that a reduction in entry costs in non-agriculture leads to labor reallocation out of agriculture, farm exit, and capital deepening. When we hold mechanization fixed, these adjustments are substantially attenuated, highlighting the role of endogenous technology adoption as an important amplification mechanism. |
| Keywords: | Agricultura, Economía, |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dbl:dblwop:2516 |
| By: | Hippolyte Lion da Silva Aguiar (AGIR - AGroécologie, Innovations, teRritoires - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - INP - PURPAN - Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Marie-Benoît Magrini (AGIR - AGroécologie, Innovations, teRritoires - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - INP - PURPAN - Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement); Pierre Labarthe (AGIR - AGroécologie, Innovations, teRritoires - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - INP - PURPAN - Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement) |
| Abstract: | Mission-oriented Innovation Systems (MIS) play a crucial role in policies for sustainability transitions, yet their development through bottom-up dynamics is not well understood. We mobilized innovation functions and Resources-Based-View approaches to investigate how a formal network in the agri-food sector developed as an MIS. Within the conceptual framework we built, innovation functions are entry points for understanding how collective action leads to resource sharing and building. This study investigates the FILEG association in southern France, created to promote the sustainable development of the regional legume value chain, involving over 70 actors. Data collected through desk research, a questionnaire, and interviews reveal diverse perceptions among members regarding the association's contributions to innovation functions. This raises questions about the collective's ability to achieve internal and external legitimacy and highlights the need for dialogue between MIS and institutional approaches, which could advance governance and coordination as a key innovation function in MIS. |
| Keywords: | Agri-Food Systems Transformation, Mission-Oriented Approach, Innovation Functions, Sustainability Transitions, Sustainable Value Chains |
| Date: | 2025–03–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05217507 |
| By: | Surabhi M ((corresponding author) Madras School of Economics, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600025); Brinda Viswanathan (Madras School of Economics, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600025) |
| Abstract: | The production and consumption of nutri-cereals (NCs), more commonly known as coarse cereals, offer significant benefits enhancing soil, human, and livestock health, yet their adoption remains limited. This study aims to investigate NC consumption in the backdrop of free grains interventions to the poor through various schemes, particularly, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). Despite various promotions given to the NCs especially millets in recent years (e.g., National Year of Millets, 2018; International Year of Millets, 2023), the NSSO’s HCES 2022-23 data shows the decline in the per capita consumption of the NC and an increase of per capita rice and wheat among the rural consumers who have access to PMGKAY. Based on a causal evaluation framework, the treated households are those not availing free rice and wheat while the control are those who avail free grains within the sample of major NC-consuming states and households reporting access to PMGKAY. Propensity score matching technique is used to analyze the impact based on the average treatment effect on the treated and inverse probability weighted regression adjustment is additionally used to account for potential confounding from observed covariates. The results reveal that the households not consuming free grains but had PMGKAY access consumed 12 percent more NCs than the matched control group, clearly indicating NCs are substituted away by access to free grain consumption among all those households that had the habit of NC consumption. The control group though gain marginally in protein intake and a larger gain in calories from rice and wheat but lose out on the micronutrient consumption from NCs, thereby adversely affecting nutritional diversity. These findings underscore the urgent need for a policy shift that integrates NCs into food security programs, thereby promoting both dietary and nutritional diversity and mitigating the adverse effects of over-dependence on refined cereals. |
| Keywords: | Nutri-cereals; Free grains; Food security |
| JEL: | I14 I15 I18 |
| Date: | 2025–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mad:wpaper:2025-286 |
| By: | David R. Heres (Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City); Alejandro Lopez-Feldman (Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City - Environment for Development Initiative, University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law); Juan M. Torres-Rojo (Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City) |
| Abstract: | The opportunity cost of forested land is one of the key elements that determines the success of any forest conservation strategy. In this paper, we explore how sensitive tropical forest conservation is to competing economic incentives in Mexico from 2002 to 2011, both within and outside protected areas. Our results show that forest revenues have a statistically significant positive effect on the conservation of most forest categories. This is a promising finding for the potential success of programs that provide economic compensation to landowners in exchange for conserving forests since the effect is also economically significant. Somehow reassuringly, economic revenues have a smaller effect on the lower levels of deforestation observed within the boundaries of protected areas. |
| JEL: | H23 Q15 Q23 |
| Date: | 2025–08–31 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:smx:wpaper:2025001 |
| By: | - |
| Abstract: | This document examines the challenges and opportunities facing Latin America and the Caribbean in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. While the region has abundant natural resources that have been instrumental in driving economic growth, their overexploitation has jeopardized this valuable heritage and exacerbated social inequality, and that, together with habitat loss, deforestation and climate change, threatens long-term sustainability. In that context, the development model must be reoriented towards a more sustainable one that values, preserves and regenerates the region’s natural heritage. Achieving this requires strengthening the participation of local institutions and actors and promoting research, investment and effective environmental governance, including the recognition of Indigenous Peoples, as key actors in the protection of biodiversity. Integrating conservation into public policies and decision-making processes will enable the region not only to ensure a more prosperous and sustainable future for its inhabitants, but also to produce innovative solutions to environmental challenges. |
| Date: | 2025–08–18 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecr:col022:82396 |
| By: | Joiner, Emily (Resources for the Future); Russo, Suzanne (Resources for the Future); Toman, Michael A. (Resources for the Future) |
| Abstract: | We examine three pathways for reducing agricultural greenhouse gas (ag-GHG) emissions in the United States that complement the Farm Bill’s Title II programs:support for the development of markets for “climate-smart” agricultural productsresearch and development (R&D) support by the public sector for technical innovation that improves capabilities to reduce ag-GHG emissionsag-GHG emissions credits that can be used by other GHG sources to offset a portion of their own emissions-reduction obligationsClimate-smart agricultural products have lower GHG emissions in their supply chains. In addition to how those reductions are accomplished and validated, a key issue is what demand there will be for such products if their costs exceed those of conventional alternatives.Agricultural R&D is supported under Title VII of the Farm Bill and through other means. Key issues are broadening the range of ag-GHG mitigation practices receiving R&D support and ensuring the fruits of agricultural R&D are relevant for and available to a diverse array of producers.Ag-GHG emissions credits facilitate lower costs for achieving emissions mitigation, which may also increase ambition for mitigation. To have ag-GHG emissions credits that are both environmentally sound and affordable, several measurement and validation challenges need to be addressed, including establishing that the claimed ag-GHG emissions reductions would not have happened anyway (in other words, they are additional). |
| Date: | 2023–11–09 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rff:ibrief:ib-23-10 |
| By: | Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peterson, Sonja; Wanner, Joschka |
| Abstract: | While international trade can offer gains from specialization and access to a wider range of products, it is also closely interlinked with global environmental problems, above all, anthropogenic climate change. This survey provides a structured overview of the economic literature on the interaction between environmental outcomes, trade, environmental policy and trade policy. In this endeavor, it covers approaches reaching from descriptive data analysis based on input‐output tables, over quantitative trade models and econometric studies to game‐theoretic analyses. Addressed issues are in particular the emission content of trade and emissions along value chains, the relocation of dirty firms and environmental impacts abroad, impacts of specific trade policies (such as trade agreements or tariffs) or environmental policies (such as border carbon adjustment), transportation emissions, as well as the role of firms. Across the different topics covered, the paper also tries to identify avenues for future research, with a particular focus on extending quantitative trade and environment models. |
| Keywords: | carbon border adjustment, carbon leakage, climate change, trade, trade policy |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:ifwkie:323983 |
| By: | Karla Hernández; Facundo Luna; Carlos Madeira |
| Abstract: | Climate change should deteriorate the value of real estate, but studies are lacking for developing economies which may suffer the worst weather changes. We match an administrative register of all the real estate properties’ transactions in Chile between 2002 and 2020 with a high spatial resolution dataset of local temperatures and precipitation. Even after controlling for a wide set of home characteristics or fixed-effects for each property, we find that fluctuations in temperatures had an impact on the prices of residential homes and agricultural properties. |
| Date: | 2024–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:chb:bcchwp:1030 |
| By: | Sonna Vikhil ((corresponding author) Madras School of Economics, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600025); K.S. Kavi Kumar (Madras School of Economics, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600025) |
| Abstract: | While many developing countries, including India, increasingly started using unconditional cash transfers in agriculture (UCTAs) to improve welfare of people, the effectiveness of such policies are still being evaluated. The impact of UCTAs can be evaluated from multiple perspectives, including expenditure on inputs, allocation of time across different activities by the farmers etc. Using data from the 2019 and 2024 NSSO’s Time Use Survey, this study aims to investigate the effects of a cash transfer program – Rythu Bandhu Scheme - introduced in Telangana on the time use patterns of rural agricultural households.The time allocation in a day has been classified into activities corresponding to four broad categories: System of National Accounts (SNA) (e.g., Employment and Production-related), Extended SNA (ESNA) (e.g., Unpaid domestic services and caregiving), Non-SNA (NSNA) (e.g., Learning, Socialization and Leisure etc), and Self-care (SC) (e.g., Eating, Sleeping etc). The program’s causal impacts are evaluated separately for both periods using a Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SURE) framework to address cross-equation residual correlation. Additionally, to address selection bias, Average Treatment effects on the Treated (ATT) has been estimated ignoring residual correlation. The study also employed Propensity Score Matching (PSM), to ensure a valid quasi-experimental design. The 2019 findings demonstrate an initial trend towards more engagement in SNA and SC activities, coupled with a contraction in time spent on ESNA and NSNA activities. This pattern indicates an immediate response to the cash transfer, possibly driven by short-term adjustments in labour supply and household well-being. The 2024 estimates, on the other hand, show time use pattern that is more sustained: households engage more time on NSNA and, to a lesser extent, ESNA activities while spending less time on SNA and SC. These shifts indicate a settling into a new equilibrium facilitated by assured income from the UCTAs, where households diversify their time usage beyond the market production and prioritise leisure, learning, and social activities |
| Keywords: | Cash Transfers; Agriculture; Time-Use Patterns |
| JEL: | D13 I38 J22 Q18 |
| Date: | 2025–08 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mad:wpaper:2025-287 |