Quasi-experimental and experimental approaches to environmental economics

This paper argues that an increased application of quasi-experimental and experimental techniques will improve understanding about core environmental economics questions. This argument is supported by a review of the limitations of associational evidence in assessing causal hypotheses. The paper als...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Greenstone, Michael, Gayer, Ted
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51856