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The Political Man and Contingent Valuation: Motives Do Count

Nyborg, Karine - 1996

welfare functions. The model may provide one explanation to several puzzling phenomena often found in contingent valuation …

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Welfare Effects of Trade Liberalisation in Distorted Economies A Dynamic General Equilibrium Assessment for Norway

Fæhn, Taran; Holmøy, Erling - 1999

A disaggregated intertemporal CGE model is used to simulate the welfare effects in Norway of the recently implemented … costs for the country is identified as the most important source of welfare gains, through improved terms of trade. Due to … welfare. In particular, this explains why the simulated reduction of employment has a significant negative impact on the total …

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Who got what, then and now? A fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project

Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2015

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2009

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...

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An Experimental Investigation of Social Norms

Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil - 2001

Several economists have maintained that social and internalized norms can enforce cooperation in public good situations. This experimental study investigates impacts of social and internalized norms for cooperation among strangers in a public good game. The experiment has two treatment effects....

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On the value of households' recycling efforts

Bruvoll, Annegrete; Nyborg, Karine - 2002

Do households' recycling efforts represent a social cost, which should be taken into account in cost-benefit analyses of alternative waste treatment systems? Some argue that it should not, since recycling efforts are to a large extent voluntary. We demonstrate that if the government can...

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Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Democratic Ideal

Nyborg, Karine; Spangen, Inger - 1997

In traditional cost-benefit analyses of public projects, every citizen's willingness to pay for a project is given an equal weight. This is sometimes taken to imply that cost-benefit analysis is a democratic method for making public decisions, as opposed to, for example, political processes...

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Can we fight drugs using communication campaigns? A framed field experiment

Ibanez, Marcela; Vasquez, Juanita - 2016

This paper uses a framed field experiment to test the effect of persuasive communication as a strategy in the fight against drugs in Colombia. Our design varies the salience and the degree of informativeness of the messages that participants receive, while highlighting particular negative...

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Indirect Social Sanctions from Monetarily Unaffected Strangers in a Public Good Game

Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil - 2003

Several economists have maintained that social sanctions can enforce cooperation in public good situations. This experimental study investigates whether indirect social sanctions from monetarily unaffected observers can increase contributions to a public good. The experiment has two treatment...

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Tout est au mieux dans ce meilleur des ménages possibles The Pangloss critique of equivalence scales

Lind, Jo Thori - 2001

utility function. This may be founded on an assumption of the household maximizing a welfare function of individual utilities …-household comparisons of welfare on this approach is generally not valid. The household will generally put different weight on the utility …

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