Publications
Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Soil Conservation. Evidence from Malawi
This paper focuses on two main sources of tenure insecurity, informal short-term tenancy contracts, and customary gender-biased inheritance practices. Using a large plot-level dataset from Malawi, the analysis employs a linear probability model with household fixed effects and finds that both sources of insecurity have a negative effect on soil conservation investments. read more »
Climate Change Legislation in 2015
Presentation to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) / Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Legislators Expert Meeting on Climate Change, London, 26 October 2015. Participants included legislators from 16 countries.
How to price carbon in good times … and bad!
This article focuses on the relationship between the design of carbon pricing instruments and business cycle fluctuations. read more »
The economic effects of long-term climate change: evidence from the little ice age
This paper studies the economic effects of long-term and gradual climate change, over a period of 250 years, when people have time to adapt. read more »
Sick of noise: the health effects of loud neighbours and urban din
This paper analyses the health effects of residential noise annoyance using a high quality longitudinal survey of over 5000 adults in the Netherlands between 2007 and 2013. read more »
Why Are We Waiting? The logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
Powerpoint slides from a speech given by Professor Lord Nicholas Stern at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, UK on 19 October 2015 read more »
Cars, carbon taxes and CO2 emissions
This paper looks at whether carbon taxes imposed in Sweden were effective in reducing CO2 emissions. read more »
Crop diversification and child health: Empirical evidence from Tanzania
Malnutrition is recognized as a major issue among low-income households in developing countries with long-term implications for economic development. Recently, crop diversification has been recognized as a strategy to improve … read more »
Searching for carbon leaks in multinational companies
This paper examines whether the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has led companies to shift the location of production, thereby creating carbon leakage. read more »
An ‘equal effort’ approach to assessing the North–South climate finance gap
This study employs a number of Integrated Assessment Models to determine what the optimal financial transfers between high-income and developing economies would be if climate mitigation effort, measured as mitigation costs as a share of gross domestic product, were to be divided equally across regions through a global carbon market. read more »
