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A Meta-Analysis of the Willingness to Pay for Reductions in Pesticide Risk Exposure

Travisi, Chiara M.; Nijkamp, Peter; Florax, Raymond J. G. M. - 2004

The use of environmental policy instruments such as eco-labelling and pesticide taxes should preferably be based on disaggregate estimates of the individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for pesticide risk reductions. We review the empirical valuation literature dealing with pesticide risk exposure...

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The Economics of Warm Glow: A Note on Consumer's Behavior and Public Policy Implications

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Onofri, Laura - 2004

The paper focuses on the ongoing debate on non-market valuation, including the valuation environmental goods, and the opportunity to use contingent valuation for policy guidance. In fact, contingent valuation critics argue that reported willingness to pay answers do not reflect real economic...

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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare

Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2007

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a “value of life” type of framework. We are able to express adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child...

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The Socio-Economic Value of Natural Riverbanks in the Netherlands

Ruijgrok, E.C.M.; Nillesen, E.E.M. - 2004

riverbanks do not provide this habitat, natural river banks increase biodiversity in the Netherlands. On the basis of technical …

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A new theory of forecasting

Manganelli, Simone - 2006

are asymptotically equivalent. We illustrate the implications of this new theory with a simple simulation, an application …

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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility) and asked to state their probabilistic choices. We...

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How much internalization of nuclear risk through liability insurance?

Schneider, Yves; Zweifel, Peter - 2002

An important source of conflict surrounding nuclear energy is that with a very small probability, a large-scale nuclear accident may occur. One way to internalize the associated financial risks is through mandating nuclear operators to have liability insurance. This paper presents estimates of...

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Fair Agreements for Sharing International Rivers with Multiple Springs and Externalities

van den Brink, Rene; van der Laan, Gerard; Moes, Nigel - 2010

In this paper we consider the problem of sharing water from a river among a group of agents (countries, cities, firms …) located along the river. The benefit of each agent depends on the amount of water consumed by the agent. An allocation of the … can be negative). The problem of finding a fair welfare distribution can be modelled by a cooperative game. For a river …

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Optimal water allocation in the Mekong river basin

Ringler, Claudia - 2001

The Mekong River is the dominant geo-hydrological structure in mainland Southeast Asia, originating in China and … are carried out for the Mekong River Basin with the objective to determine tradeoffs and complementarities in water usage … effective management and joint cooperation in the Mekong River Basin. It could also facilitate the upcoming negotiations of …

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Willingness to Accept, Willingness to Pay, and Loss Aversion

Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2023

We use four incentivized representative surveys to study the endowment effect for lotteries in 4,000 U.S. adults. We replicate the standard finding of an endowment effect–the divergence between Willingness to Accept (WTA) and Willingness to Pay (WTP), but document three new findings. First, we...

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