This dissertation consists of three essays on private landowners' response to incentives for carbon sequestration in forests. The first essay examines private landowner response to incentives for carbon sequestration through various combinations of intermediate management practices. The second essay focuses on agricultural landowners' willingness to participate in an incentive program...
Commodity equivalence and population similarity are two widely accepted paradigms for the
valid transfer of welfare estimates across resource valuation contexts. We argue that strict
adherence to these rules may leave relevant information untapped. We propose a Bayesian
model search algorithm that examines the probabilities with which two or more...