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The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - 2022

In the late nineteenth century, the North American bison was brought to the brink of extinction in just over a decade. We demonstrate that the loss of the bison had immediate, negative consequences for the Native Americans who relied on them and ultimately resulted in a permanent reversal of...

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Who and for How Long? An Empirical Analysis of the Consumers' Response to Red Meat Warning

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco - 2021

the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We use high-frequency data and implement a … difference-in-difference-in-differences model which exploits the seasonality in red meat consumption and the heterogeneity in … with higher levels of education correctly reduced red meat consumption and over a longer period. Our findings suggest that …

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'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes : Subjective Versus Revealed Preferences

Akay, Alpaslan - 2017

Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To operationalize this approach, preference heterogeneity can be inferred from the observation of individual choices (revealed...

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Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing

Bargain, Olivier - 2018

Recent advances in the collective model literature suggest ways to estimate the complete allocation of resources within households, using assignable goods and assuming adult preference similarity across demographic groups (or across spouses). While it makes welfare analysis at the individual...

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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages

Maestas, Nicole - 2018

This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...

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Time Will Tell : Recovering Preferences When Choices are Noisy

Alós-Ferrer, Carlos - 2018

The ability to uncover preferences from choices is fundamental for both positive economics and welfare analysis. Overwhelming evidence shows that choice is stochastic, which has given rise to random utility models as the dominant paradigm in applied microeconomics. However, as is well known, it...

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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time : Ireland 1987-2005

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...

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Economic Choices and Status : Measuring Preferences for Income Rank

Mujcic, Redzo - 2010

In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income rank matters independently of absolute income, with greater weight given to rank by males,...

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A Salience Theory of Choice Errors

Manzini, Paola - 2010

We study a psychologically based foundation for choice errors. The decision maker applies a preference ranking after forming a 'consideration set' prior to choosing an alternative. Membership of the consideration set is determined both by the alternative specific salience and by the rationality...

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Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes

Grund, Christian - 2011

Many previous studies try to discover job preferences by directly asking individuals. Since it is not sure, whether answers to these surveys are relevant for actual behaviour, this empirical examination offers a new approach based on representative German data. Employees who quit their job and...

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