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measurement literature, proposes four new general unemployment indices. The first of these is parallel to the Sen poverty index … the values of the four proposed indices, both within a given canton and within Switzerland as a whole. The paper concludes …
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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 objectives of this paper are to propose and to implement for the French case an approach for the estimation of consumers' willingness to pay for tap water quality. This method is indirect and is based on the observation of the households' demands for soft drinks and bottled water. The lack...
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Virtual Reality (VR) hat in den vergangenen Jahren erhebliche technologische Fortschritte verzeichnet und begonnen, sich im Endverbrauchermarkt zu etablieren. Insbesondere Facebooks Tochterunternehmen Oculus erzielte mit der Quest 2 hohe Absatzzahlen, wodurch das Produkt zum bisher...
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We apply conjoint analysis to study the influence of tax labeling and tax earmarking on German taxpayers' willingness to contribute. From a survey based sample we show that labeling and earmarking effects can substantially increase participants' willingness to contribute, which results in a...
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Conjoint analysis (CA) is one of the most important methods for preference elicitation. In this paper we investigate the intellectual structure within the conjoint analytical research community. Analyses based on single papers provide a method-based overview of streams of conjoint research. By...
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This paper estimates the preferences of farmers for cattle traits in southern Burkina Faso using Conjoint analysis, a survey-based system for measuring preferences for multiple-attribute goods. Here the technique is used in the context of a West African country where literacy is low, where...
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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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The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences. While economists predominantly conduct …, on the one hand, often fall short in the measurement of more complex elements, such as the conditionality or the level of …
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in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … - provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …
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