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. Depending on their current health status, people value increased life expectancy and improvement in health quality differently …, the weights of the attributes of length and quality of life should be varied according to different states of health. A …
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statistical life, which are mostly based on average willingness-to-pay values of mortality risk reduction. …Economic analyses of development projects and policies often involve assigning an economic value to changes in the risk … aggregation of individuals' willingness to pay for fatal risk reduction and therefore the economic value to society to reduce the …
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It is widely accepted that risk and uncertainty are integral parts of the property valuation process. Uncertainty in … property valuation is derived from the characteristics of property itself. The issue pertaining to risk and uncertainty in … risk and uncertainty in valuation, especially for business purposes or in the current term known as business valuation. The …
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Die vorliegende Studie geht der heiklen Frage nach, ob und wie der Nutzen einer öffentlichen Maßnahme gemessen werden kann, die ein Umweltrisiko vermindert. Dazu werden in einer wohlfahrtstheoretischen Analyse testbare Hypothesen über die Wertschätzung einer solchen Maßnahme abgeleitet. Mit...
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overweight and obesity. Methods: Longitudinal data from post- (T2) and follow-up (T3) measurements of a school-based health …
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, which necessitates the acceptance of the mortality risk associated with their use, repre- sents a significant economic and … the acceptability of risk. This method quantifies the 'disutility' of a health state by evaluating the extent to which an … individual is willing to accept a specific mortality risk in exchange for avoiding the state. Results The study demonstrated that …
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would have covered workers at firms with 100 or more employees. This paper conducts an original mortality risk analysis for … these regulations. Mortality risk analysis evaluates the increase or decrease in expected mortality associated with a new … analysis for the two regulations in question does not purport to comprehensively evaluate costs; ergo, our mortality risk …
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Evidence-based policies require well-established research and reliable data. One of the major difficulties in delivering such data for cultural policies lies in measuring culture, expressing its ephemeral nature in numbers and indicators, as research used to do in other sectors....
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The wine industry has faced various environmental and social challenges. On the demand side, consumer demand for sustainable wines has been increasing but, to date, it is unknown whether consumers perceive wine companies' efforts to obtain sustainable development (SD) certifications and labels...
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This paper applies a Bayesian approach to incorporate non-data information in estimating the opportunity cost for farmers in rural Cameroon to engage in biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration efforts. Findings from our field survey reveal that only a small percentage of farmers are...
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