We present a new approach to estimating health gains from treatments by asking respondentsto directly compare the ‘before’ and ‘after’ treatment health states in the time trade-off (TTO)framework. We found that responses to these direct comparisons were much more likely tocapture a...

This paper examines a public choice model of fiscal illusion in the demand for localgovernment goods applied to local government expenditures in Britain. Data for twofiscal years, 1991/92 and 1993/9, are used reflecting two very different local taxregimes – the Community Charge in 1991/92 and...