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Katharine R.E. Sims

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First Name:Katharine
Middle Name:R.E.
Last Name:Sims
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RePEc Short-ID:psi860
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https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/ksims

Affiliation

Economics Department
Amherst College

Amherst, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.amherst.edu/~econ/
RePEc:edi:edamhus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Alix-Garcia,Jennifer M. & Sims,Katharine R. Emans & Phaneuf,Daniel J., 2019. "Using Referenda to Improve Targeting and Decrease Costs of Conditional Cash Transfers," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8708, The World Bank.
  2. Alix-Garcia,Jennifer M. & Sims,Katharine R. Emans & Orozco Olvera,Victor Hugo & Costica,Laura Elena & Fernandez Medina.Jorge David & Romo-Monroy,Sofia & Pagiola,Stefano P., 2019. "Can Environmental Cash Transfers Reduce Deforestation and Improve Social Outcomes ? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Mexico?s National Program (2011-2014)," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8707, The World Bank.
  3. Alix-Garcia, Jennifer Marie & Shapiro, Elizabeth N. & Sims, Katharine R.E., 2010. "Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico's National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program," Staff Papers 93045, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
  4. Alix-Garcia, Jennifer Marie & McIntosh, Craig & Sims, Katharine R.E. & Welch, Jarrod R., 2010. "The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Program," Staff Papers 93046, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
  5. Graham J. McKee & Steven G. Rivkin & Katharine R.E. Sims, 2010. "Disruption, Achievement and the Heterogeneous Benefits of Smaller Classes," NBER Working Papers 15812, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Katharine R E Sims & Jenny Schuetz, 2007. "Environmental Regulation and Land Use Change: Do Local Wetlands Bylaws Slow the Conversion of Open Space to Residential Uses?," CID Working Papers 18, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
  7. B Kelsey Jack & Carolyn Kousky & Katharine R E Sims, 2007. "Lessons Relearned: Can Previous Research on Incentive-Based Mechanisms Point the Way for Payments for Ecosystem Services?," CID Working Papers 15, Center for International Development at Harvard University.

Articles

  1. Kalinin, Alexey V. & Sims, Katharine R.E. & Meyer, Spencer R. & Thompson, Jonathan R., 2023. "Does land conservation raise property taxes? Evidence from New England cities and towns," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
  2. Sims, Katharine R.E., 2023. "Towards equity in land protection," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 52(2), pages 201-230, August.
  3. Cheng, Audrey T. & Sims, Katharine R.E. & Yi, Yuanyuan, 2023. "Economic development and conservation impacts of China's nature reserves," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
  4. Alix-Garcia, Jennifer M. & Sims, Katharine R.E. & Costica, Laura, 2021. "Better to be indirect? Testing the accuracy and cost-savings of indirect surveys," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
  5. Johan A. Oldekop & Katharine R. E. Sims & Birendra K. Karna & Mark J. Whittingham & Arun Agrawal, 2019. "Reductions in deforestation and poverty from decentralized forest management in Nepal," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 2(5), pages 421-428, May.
  6. Robyn Meeks & Katharine R. E. Sims & Hope Thompson, 2019. "Waste Not: Can Household Biogas Deliver Sustainable Development?," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 72(3), pages 763-794, March.
  7. Alix-Garcia, Jennifer M. & Sims, Katharine R.E. & Phaneuf, Daniel J., 2019. "Using referenda to improve targeting and decrease costs of conditional cash transfers," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 176(C), pages 179-194.
  8. Albers, H. J. & Lee, K. D. & Sims, K. R. E., 2018. "Economics of Habitat Fragmentation: A Review and Critique of the Literature," International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, now publishers, vol. 11(2), pages 97-144, May.
  9. Sims, Katharine R.E. & Alix-Garcia, Jennifer M., 2017. "Parks versus PES: Evaluating direct and incentive-based land conservation in Mexico," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 8-28.
  10. Graham McKee & Katharine Sims & Steven Rivkin, 2015. "Disruption, learning, and the heterogeneous benefits of smaller classes," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 48(3), pages 1267-1286, May.
  11. Jennifer M. Alix-Garcia & Katharine R. E. Sims & Patricia Yañez-Pagans, 2015. "Only One Tree from Each Seed? Environmental Effectiveness and Poverty Alleviation in Mexico's Payments for Ecosystem Services Program," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 7(4), pages 1-40, November.
  12. Katharine Sims, 2014. "Do Protected Areas Reduce Forest Fragmentation? A Microlandscapes Approach," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 58(2), pages 303-333, June.
  13. Jennifer Alix-Garcia & Craig McIntosh & Katharine R. E. Sims & Jarrod R. Welch, 2013. "The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Program," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 95(2), pages 417-435, May.
  14. Jennifer M. Alix-Garcia & Elizabeth N. Shapiro & Katharine R. E. Sims, 2012. "Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 88(4), pages 613-638.
  15. Sims, Katharine R.E., 2010. "Conservation and development: Evidence from Thai protected areas," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 60(2), pages 94-114, September.
  16. Sims, Katharine R.E. & Schuetz, Jenny, 2009. "Local regulation and land-use change: The effects of wetlands bylaws in Massachusetts," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 39(4), pages 409-421, July.

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  1. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (2) 2020-03-30 2020-03-30
  2. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (2) 2020-03-30 2020-03-30
  3. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (1) 2020-03-30
  4. NEP-DCM: Discrete Choice Models (1) 2020-03-30
  5. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2020-03-30

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