This paper reports the results of a Contingent Valuation (CV) study on cancer prevention where Multiple-Bounded Dichotomous Choice (MBDC) questions are asked of rural residents in China about their willingness to pay (WTP) for a hypothetical cancer vaccine which is expected to be effective for...

In many cases, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development can be generally depicted by an inverted U-shaped curve, or an environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution increases with income at the beginning and decreases after a certain level of income. However, what...

Municipal solid waste management continues to be a major challenge for local governments in both urban and rural areas across the world, and one of the key issues is their financial constraints. Recently an economic analysis was conducted in Eryuan, a poor county located in Yunnan Province of...

This article presents a new modelling strategy that estimates individual valuation distributions with Multiple Bounded Discrete Choice (MBDC) data. An individual's valuation of a commodity or service is assumed to have a distribution rather than being a single number. Likelihood responses to the...

Economic analyses of development projects and policies often involve assigning an economic value to changes in the risk of loss of human life. A typical term used in the economic analyses is the value of statistical life, which reflects the aggregation of individuals'willingness to pay for fatal...

In this research paper, we explored using the trust region method to solve the logit-based SUE problem. We proposed a modified trust region Newton (MTRN) algorithm for this problem. When solving the trust region SUE subproblem, we showed that applying the well-known Steihaug-Toint method is...

This article revisits the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. Based on data for seven pollutants in 29 Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2010, we conducted statistical tests on the coefficients of the critical variables (polynomial income-related terms) by following the logic of...

This paper proposes a combination of trial-and-error congestion pricing schemes that have been studied in the literature. It not only considers the minimization of the total system cost but also addresses the capacity constraints. A two-level iteration method is proposed for solving the hybrid...

In this paper, we use a 16 manufacturing-sector single-country linked input-output model to calculate the balance of emissions (carbon) embodied in trade (BEET) and pollution terms of trade (PTT) for China's international trade with the entire world and with its principal trade partners (Japan,...