B Kelsey Jack
Biographic Data
| ID | 5868737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Kelsey Jack |
| GIVEN NAMES | B Kelsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Jack |
| SIGNATURE | JACK B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Harvesting the Rain
Many agricultural and environmental technologies require upfront investments. This may deter adoption, particularly in settings characterized by information, liquidity, and credit constraints. We test for these barriers to the adoption of an agricultural technique that helps address land degradation in Niger. We find little evidence that liquidity or credit constraints deter adoption: instead, providing farmers with training increases the share o…
Environmental externalities and free-riding in the household
In addition to generating a negative environmental externality, a household’s water consumption entails another “market failure”: household members free-ride off each other and overconsume. The problem stems from consumption being billed at the household level and the difficulty of monitoring one another’s consumption. We document the importance of this phenomenon in urban Zambia by combining utility billing records and randomized person-specific…
Multiple price lists for willingness to pay elicitation
Poor and Rational
Technology Adoption under Uncertainty
Technology adoption often requires multiple stages of investment. As new information emerges, agents may abandon a technology that was profitable in expectation. We use a field experiment to vary the payoffs at two stages of investment in a new technology: a tree species that provides on-farm fertilizer benefits. Farmer decisions identify the information about profitability that arrives between the take-up and follow-through stages. Results show …
Productivity in piece-rate labor markets
The leakage and livelihood impacts of PES contracts
Envirodevonomics
Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, the few existing measures of marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox is the central puzzle at the intersection of environmental and development economics: Given poor environmental quality and high he…
Designing payments for ecosystem services
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) policies compensate individuals or communities for undertaking actions that increase the provision of ecosystem services such as water purification, flood mitigation, or carbon sequestration. PES schemes rely on incentives to induce behavioral change and can thus be considered part of the broader class of incentive- or market-based mechanisms for environmental policy. By recognizing that PES programs are ince…
The leakage and livelihood impacts of PES contracts
Poor and Rational
Environmental externalities and free-riding in the household
In addition to generating a negative environmental externality, a household’s water consumption entails another “market failure”: household members free-ride off each other and overconsume. The problem stems from consumption being billed at the household level and the difficulty of monitoring one another’s consumption. We document the importance of this phenomenon in urban Zambia by combining utility billing records and randomized person-specific…
Productivity in piece-rate labor markets
Multiple price lists for willingness to pay elicitation
Designing payments for ecosystem services
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) policies compensate individuals or communities for undertaking actions that increase the provision of ecosystem services such as water purification, flood mitigation, or carbon sequestration. PES schemes rely on incentives to induce behavioral change and can thus be considered part of the broader class of incentive- or market-based mechanisms for environmental policy. By recognizing that PES programs are ince…
Envirodevonomics
Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, the few existing measures of marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox is the central puzzle at the intersection of environmental and development economics: Given poor environmental quality and high he…
Productivity in piece-rate labor markets
The leakage and livelihood impacts of PES contracts
Technology Adoption under Uncertainty
Technology adoption often requires multiple stages of investment. As new information emerges, agents may abandon a technology that was profitable in expectation. We use a field experiment to vary the payoffs at two stages of investment in a new technology: a tree species that provides on-farm fertilizer benefits. Farmer decisions identify the information about profitability that arrives between the take-up and follow-through stages. Results show …
Multiple price lists for willingness to pay elicitation
Poor and Rational
Environmental externalities and free-riding in the household
In addition to generating a negative environmental externality, a household’s water consumption entails another “market failure”: household members free-ride off each other and overconsume. The problem stems from consumption being billed at the household level and the difficulty of monitoring one another’s consumption. We document the importance of this phenomenon in urban Zambia by combining utility billing records and randomized person-specific…
Harvesting the Rain
Many agricultural and environmental technologies require upfront investments. This may deter adoption, particularly in settings characterized by information, liquidity, and credit constraints. We test for these barriers to the adoption of an agricultural technique that helps address land degradation in Niger. We find little evidence that liquidity or credit constraints deter adoption: instead, providing farmers with training increases the share o…
Economics (9 works) · Microeconomics (8 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Natural resource economics (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Incentive (3 works) · Public economics (3 works)