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Impacts of wildfire-season air quality on park and playground visitation in the Northwest United States

Mullan, Katrina; Avery, Teigan; Boise, Patrick; Leary, … - In: Ecological economics 224 (2024), pp. 1-14

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The Impact of Haze on People’s Averting Behavior: Evidence From Online Shopping in China

Li, Mengyao; Ferreira, Susana - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

Paper temporarily withheld pending permission to post from data provider, effective Jan. 20, 2015.

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A Comparison of Methodologies for Valuing Decreased Health Effects from Wildfire Smoke

Richardson, Leslie; Loomis, John B.; Champ, Patricia A. - 2010

the contingent valuation method and the averting behavior method. Comparing estimates across all three common approaches … that a simple cost of illness estimate is about $3 per day of symptoms, the averting behavior method results in a WTP value …

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A Comparison of Methodologies for Valuing Decreased Health Effects from Wildfire Smoke

Richardson, Leslie; Loomis, John B.; Champ, Patricia A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

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Perception of Health Risk and Averting Behavior: An Analysis of Household Water Consumption in Southwest Sri Lanka

Nauges, Céline; Van Den Berg, Caroline - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009

Using household data from surveys made in Sri Lanka, we provide original results regarding i) factors driving the perception of risk related to water consumption and ii) the role of perceived risk on household’s decision to treat water before drinking it. First, we find evidence that water...

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Self Protection and Averting Behavior, Values of Statistical Lives, and Benefit Cost Analysis of Environmental Policy

Blomquist, Glenn C. - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2003

Individuals can be observed in a variety of activities that affect their health and safety. Protective behavior is evident in motorist choice of automobile type, safety equipment such as seat belts, and speed of travel. Choices concerning safety helmets, cigarette smoking and installation of...

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Valuing of environmental quality - stated and revealed preferences comparison

Švejdarová, Hana; Mišovič, Ján - In: Politická ekonomie 2001 (2001) 4

ground water quality, are described. An averting behavior method based on bottled water purchases is used to disclose …

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Chapter 10: VALUING FOOD SAFETY: WHICH APPROACHES TO USE?

Cropper, Maureen L. - Department of Resource Economics, University of …

This book was originally published by Westview Press, Boulder CO, 1995.

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