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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2008
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 2008 2(1):130-145; doi:10.1093/reep/rem029
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Reflections on the Literature

V. Kerry Smith*

* W. P. Carey Professor of Economics, Arizona State University, Resources for the Future University Fellow, and research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

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   Introduction
 
Three "Reflections on the Literature" columns written in under a year—wow, I didn't know I had it in me! This was my first thought when I was reminded that a third column was due. I feel like a "virtual blogger." So in that spirit, I decided to look at the two environmental economics blogs that I ask my students to read to see how I might make this third column a little different.1 I found the inspiration I needed in Matt Kahn's postings in November 2006. He suggested in his environmental and urban economics blog that many of the most important questions in environmental economics are empirical; it is through the interaction of theory and what the data "tell us" that we make progress or begin to ask better questions. As a result of Matt's comment, I decided to present some new (and admittedly preliminary) empirical work as part of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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   Summary and Concluding Reflections
 

   Appendix
 

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