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Articles 1 - 11 of 11
Full-Text Articles in Public Administration
Association Between Racial Residential Segregation And Covid-19 Mortality, Suresh Nath Neupane, Erin Ruel
Association Between Racial Residential Segregation And Covid-19 Mortality, Suresh Nath Neupane, Erin Ruel
CSLF Articles
This study investigates the impact of racial residential segregation on COVID-19 mortality during the first year of the US epidemic. Data comes from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's and the University of Wisconsin's joint county health rankings project. The observation includes a record of 8,670,781 individuals in 1488 counties. We regressed COVID-19 deaths, using hierarchical logistic regression models, on individual and county-level predictors. We found that as racial residential segregation increased, mortality rates increased. Controlling for segregation, Blacks and Asians had a greater risk of mortality, while Hispanics and other racial …
The Network Of Online Stolen Data Markets: How Vendor Flows Connect Digital Marketplaces, Marie Ouellet, David Maimon, C. Jordan Howell, Yubao Wu
The Network Of Online Stolen Data Markets: How Vendor Flows Connect Digital Marketplaces, Marie Ouellet, David Maimon, C. Jordan Howell, Yubao Wu
CSLF Articles
In the face of market uncertainty, illicit actors on the darkweb mitigate risk by displacing their operations across digital marketplaces. In this study, we reconstruct market networks created by vendor displacement to examine how digital marketplaces are connected on the darkweb and identify the properties that drive vendor flows before and after a law enforcement disruption. Findings show that vendors’ movement across digital marketplaces creates a highly connected ecosystem; nearly all markets are directly or indirectly connected. These network characteristics remain stable following a law enforcement operation; prior vendor flows predict vendor movement before and after the interdiction. The findings …
Cryptomarkets And The Returns To Criminal Experience, Marie Ouellet, David Décary-Hétu, Andréanne Bergeron
Cryptomarkets And The Returns To Criminal Experience, Marie Ouellet, David Décary-Hétu, Andréanne Bergeron
CSLF Articles
Criminal capital theory suggests more experienced offenders receive higher returns from crime. Offenders who accrue skills over their criminal career are better able to minimize detection, increase profits, and navigate illegal markets. Yet shifts in the offending landscape to technologically-dependent crimes have led some to suggest that the skills necessary to be successful in conventional crimes no longer apply, meaning ‘traditional’ criminals may be left behind. The recent turn of drug vendors to online markets provides an opportunity to investigate whether ‘street smarts’ translate to success in technologically-dependent crimes. This study surveys 51 drug vendors on online drug markets to …
The Co-Production Of Sustainable Future Scenarios, David M. Iwaniec, Elizabeth Cook, Melissa J. Davidson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Matei Georgescu, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Ariane Middel, David A. Sampson, Nancy B. Grimm
The Co-Production Of Sustainable Future Scenarios, David M. Iwaniec, Elizabeth Cook, Melissa J. Davidson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Matei Georgescu, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Ariane Middel, David A. Sampson, Nancy B. Grimm
Sustainable Futures Lab Publications
Scenarios are a tool to develop plausible, coherent visions about the future and to foster anticipatory knowledge. We present the Sustainable Future Scenarios (SFS) framework and demonstrate its application through the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) urban site. The SFS approach emphasizes the co-development of positive and long-term alternative future visions. Through a collaboration of practitioner and academic stakeholders, this research integrates participatory scenario development, modeling, and qualitative scenario assessments. The SFS engagement process creates space to question the limits of what is normally considered possible, desirable, or inevitable in the face of future challenges. Comparative analyses among …
Integrating Existing Climate Adaptation Planning Into Future Visions: A Strategic Scenario For The Central Arizona–Phoenix Region, David M. Iwaniec, Elizabeth Cook, Melissa J. Davidson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Nancy B. Grimm
Integrating Existing Climate Adaptation Planning Into Future Visions: A Strategic Scenario For The Central Arizona–Phoenix Region, David M. Iwaniec, Elizabeth Cook, Melissa J. Davidson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Nancy B. Grimm
CSLF Articles
Cities face a number of challenges to ensure that people’s well-being and ecosystem integrity are not only maintained but improved for current and future generations. Urban planning must account for the diverse and changing interactions among the social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS) of a city. Cities struggle with long-range approaches to explore, anticipate, and plan for sustainability and resilience—and scenario development is one way to address this need. In this paper, we present the framework for developing what we call ‘strategic’ scenarios, which are scenarios or future visions created from governance documents expressing unrealized municipal priorities and goals. While …
Carbon Offsets Out Of The Woods? Acceptability Of Domestic Vs. International Reforestation Programmes In The Lab, Andrea Barranzini, Nicolas Borzykowski, Stefano Carattini
Carbon Offsets Out Of The Woods? Acceptability Of Domestic Vs. International Reforestation Programmes In The Lab, Andrea Barranzini, Nicolas Borzykowski, Stefano Carattini
CSLF Articles
Following the entry into force of the Paris Agreement in November 2016, governments around the world are now expected to turn their nationally determined contributions into concrete climate policies. Given the global public good nature of climate change mitigation and the important cross-country differences in marginal abatement costs, distributing mitigation efforts across countries could substantially lower the overall cost of implementing climate policy. However, abating emissions abroad instead of domestically may face important political and popular resistance. We ran a lab experiment with more than 300 participants and asked them to choose between a domestic and an international reforestation project. …
Carbon Pricing In Climate Policy: Seven Reasons, Complementary Instruments, And Political Economy Considerations, Andrea Barranzini, Jeroen C.J.M. Van Den Bergh, Stefano Carattini, Richard B. Howarth, Emilio Padilla, Jordi Roca
Carbon Pricing In Climate Policy: Seven Reasons, Complementary Instruments, And Political Economy Considerations, Andrea Barranzini, Jeroen C.J.M. Van Den Bergh, Stefano Carattini, Richard B. Howarth, Emilio Padilla, Jordi Roca
CSLF Articles
Carbon pricing is a recurrent theme in debates on climate policy. Discarded at the 2009 COP in Copenhagen, it remained part of deliberations for a climate agreement in subsequent years. As there is still much misunderstanding about the many reasons to implement a global carbon price, ideological resistance against it prospers. Here, we present the main arguments for carbon pricing, to stimulate a fair and well-informed discussion about it. These include considerations that have received little attention so far. We stress that a main reason to use carbon pricing is environmental effectiveness at a relatively low cost, which in turn …
Green Taxes In A Post-Paris World: Are Millions Of Nays Inevitable?, Stefano Carattini, Andrea Barranzini, Philippe Thalmann, Frederic Varone, Frank Vohringer
Green Taxes In A Post-Paris World: Are Millions Of Nays Inevitable?, Stefano Carattini, Andrea Barranzini, Philippe Thalmann, Frederic Varone, Frank Vohringer
CSLF Articles
Turning the Paris Agreement’s greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ballot on energy taxes, rejected in Switzerland in 2015 by more than 2 million people. Energy taxes were aimed at completely replacing the current value-added tax. We examine the determinants of voting and find that distributional and competitiveness concerns reduced the acceptability of energy taxes, along with the perception of ineffectiveness. Most people would have preferred tax revenues to be …
How Green Are Green Economists?, Stefano Carattini, Alessandro Tavoni
How Green Are Green Economists?, Stefano Carattini, Alessandro Tavoni
CSLF Articles
This paper analyzes the decision of “green” economists to participate in the carbon offset market, and how this decision is related with the views that these experts hold on offsets. It also compares the preferences of economists with those of the general public, as emphasized in the literature. The paper exploits a unique dataset examining the decision to purchase carbon offsets at two academic conferences in environmental and ecological economics. We find that having the conference expenses covered by one's institution increases the likelihood of offsetting, but practical and ethical reservations as well as personal characteristics and preferences also play …
Effectiveness, Earmarking, And Labeling: Testing The Acceptability Of Carbon Taxes With Survey Data, Andrea Barranzini, Stefano Carattini
Effectiveness, Earmarking, And Labeling: Testing The Acceptability Of Carbon Taxes With Survey Data, Andrea Barranzini, Stefano Carattini
CSLF Articles
This paper analyzes the drivers of carbon taxes acceptability with survey data and a randomized labeling treatment. Based on a sample of more than 300
individuals, it assesses the effect on acceptability of specific policy designs and individuals’ perceptions of carbon taxes advantages and disadvantages. We find that the lack of perception of primary and ancillary benefits is one of the main barriers to the acceptability of carbon taxes. In addition, policy design matters for acceptability and in particular earmarking fiscal revenues for environmental purposes can lead to larger support. We also find an effect of labeling, comparing the wording …
Public Administration And Politics, A Cultural Clash: The Case Of Tenth And Monroe, Gerald M. Neumark
Public Administration And Politics, A Cultural Clash: The Case Of Tenth And Monroe, Gerald M. Neumark
PMAP Publications
Questions have been raised concerning the role of politics in the development of the Atlanta BeltLine policies. From one point of view, the BeltLine policy development and implementation agency, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) seems to ignore many political considerations, particularly those emanating from the neighborhoods. From another point of view, ABI is doing exactly what it should be doing to successfully complete the project. Both points of view are mutually exclusive. This essay argues that these opposing conceptions come from a culture clash between two disciplines. One particular such disagreement, how to develop a piece of land at 10th …