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Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the Value of Time Using Hedonic Experiences

Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023

waiting, £8.4 ($10.5) per hour of commuting, and £17.2 ($21.5) per hour of waiting during commuting (e.g. due to congestion …

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2014

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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Happy to Help : The Welfare Effects of a Nationwide Micro-Volunteering Programme

Dolan, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Shreedhar, Ganga; Lee, Helen - 2021

There is a strong suggestion from the existing literature that volunteering improves the wellbeing of those who give up their time to help others, but much of it is correlational and not causal. In this paper, we estimate the wellbeing benefits from volunteering for England's National Health...

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Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy

Odermatt, Reto - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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Green Commuting and Gasoline Taxes in the United States

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2019

This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by … higher gasoline tax rates are related with less time spent in commuting. Furthermore, higher gasoline taxes are related to a … lower proportion of commuting by private car, and higher proportions of commuting by public transport and/or a physical mode …

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Weather Conditions and Daily Commuting

Belloc, Ignacio; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - 2022

extreme weather conditions is that of personal travel, including commuting, an activity that is done daily by millions of … workers worldwide. Within this framework, we estimate the effects of weather conditions on daily commuting and travel choices … workers, finding significant relationships between daily weather conditions, commuting time, and travel choices. Rainy days …

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Three Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs

García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022

This paper examines the economic foundations of three criteria used for evaluating the costs and benefits of social programs. Some criteria do not consider the scale of programs or address the costs associated with programs that expand or contract the total government budget. A recent addition...

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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022

In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...

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On Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs

García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022

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Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life

Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2019

There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference points, and experienced versus decision utilities. There are also nudges that connect to estimating...

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