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Essays in Environmental, Resource, and Agricultural Economics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays in Environmental, Resource, and Agricultural Economics./
Author:	Rozowski, Casey.
Description:	1 online resource (191 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-02B.
Subject:	Ozone. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29228631click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798841528432

Essays in Environmental, Resource, and Agricultural Economics.
Rozowski, Casey.

Essays in Environmental, Resource, and Agricultural Economics. - 1 online resource (191 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation consists of three empirically driven microeconomic essays within environmental, natural resource, and agricultural economics. The first essay estimates the causal effects of acute 2 exposure on mortality, particularly among the at-risk elderly. I use the installation of desulfurization technologies at coal-fired electricity generating units in the United States from 2005 to 2014 along with prevailing wind directions to estimate the effect of local reductions in 2. Because power plants emit multiple harmful pollutants and install associated abatement technologies, I carefully isolate desulfurization effects from other pollutant reductions to avoid over-estimating damages from 2. The installation of a desulfurization technology reduces 2 emissions and local ambient concentrations by 87 and 20 percent, respectively. Estimates demonstrate that desulfurization technology adoption reduces the over65 cardiovascular mortality by 3.1 percent. The second essay addresses a common approach to adaptive management that represents uncertainty about system dynamics using a set of belief weights over a discrete set of system models. The approach used to update the belief weights is, often unknowingly, based on the assumption that one of the models is correct. The Bayesian updating process will result in the weight on one of those models converging to 1. This may be counterproductive to the dual goals of improved management and system learning. In this essay, I suggest a method that greatly expands the set of possible models by introducing an updating procedure that allows for a convex combinations of the initial models. Management of the threatened Gouldian Finch population is used for illustration. This new method is particularly useful for analysts and managers who typically think about system uncertainty in terms of alternative models. The third essay demonstrates how an increase in market concentration among pork processors leads to decreased farmer profits. Using a newly digitized proprietary data set of farm sales in North Carolina we evaluate how pressure from oligopsonistic processors impacts farmers. We find that production quotas, as estimated by the capitalized value of production permits into farm sales, account for 20-30% of farm values. Economic theory suggests that farmers should expect increased profits and preservable rents from land-specific production permits. Instead we find that, under oligopsony power, farm profits from production permits fell by 24-29% during the first 12 years of the moratorium. Collectively, these three essays address a broad array of policy-relevant empirically-driven microeconomic issues.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798841528432Subjects--Topical Terms:

675302
Ozone.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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