Paulina Oliva

Content by Paulina Oliva

• Blog post

  Building the evidence base for developing countries: An example from the effect of pollution on infant health in Mexico

  Pollution levels are orders of magnitude higher in lower-income countries than in the developed world. Studies of the health effects of pollution based on data from the latter will not necessarily be relevant to the former. This blog reports on the effect of air pollution on infant mortality in Mexico City. Significant effects found much larger than those found...

  18 Apr 2016 | Eva Arceo, Rema Hanna, Paulina Oliva

• Project

  Contract and market design for land-based carbon offsets

  Agricultural activities often create environmental externalities that are felt by individuals other than the landholder. A theoretically efficient approach to addressing these externalities involves changing prices to align private and public interests. Governments and international organizations have spent billions of dollars in recent years on incentives for land use...

  10 Oct 2014 | Kelsey Jack, Olueyede Ajayi, Samuel Bell, Raymond Guiteras, Paulina Oliva