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Improving drinking water quality in South Korea : a choice experiment

Gschwandtner, Adelina; Jang, Cheul; McManus, Richard - 2017

Increased pollution leads to a constant decrease of drinking water quality worldwide. Due to safety concerns, unpleasant taste and odour only about 3% of the population in South Korea is drinking untreated tap water. The present study uses choice experiments and cost-benefit analysis to...

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What are households willing to pay for better tap water quality? : a cross-country valuation study

Beaumais, Olvier; Briand, Anne; Millock, Katrin; … - 2014

We estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for better quality of tap water on a unique cross-section sample from 10 OECD countries. On the pooled sample, households are willing to pay 7.5% of the median annual water bill to improve the tap water quality. The highest relative WTP for better tap water...

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Incorporating time lags and uncertainty in cost-benefit analysis of water quality improvements : a case study of Limfjorden, Denmark

Larsen, Tobias Holmsgaard; Lundhede, Thomas; Olsen, … - 2021

Cost-benefit analyses are commonly applied to assess the net welfare effects of policies to improve surface water quality. These analyses often disregard the biophysical fact that from implementation of policy measures to resulting improvements on water quality there will typically be...

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Nutrient Pollution and U.S. Agriculture : Causal Effects, Integrated Assessment, and Implications of Climate Change

Metaxoglou, Konstantinos; Smith, Aaron D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

extreme temperature. Based on the average streamflow of the Mississippi River at the Gulf of Mexico during this period and …

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Dealing with ignored attributes in choice experiments on valuation of Sweden’s environmental quality objectives

Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina - 2009

Using a choice experiment, this paper investigates how Swedish citizens value three environmental quality objectives. In addition, a follow-up question is used to investigate whether respondents ignored any attributes when responding. The resulting information is used in the model estimation by...

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Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics : opportunities and challenges

Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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Burning waters to crystal springs? : U.S. water pollution regulation over the last half century

Keiser, David A.; Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2018

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Burning waters to crystal springs? : US water pollution regulation over the last half century

Keiser, David A.; Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2019

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Beggar-thy-neighbor or free-riding? : transboundary behaviors in decentralized water pollution policies

Meng, Wenbo - 2022

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Damming trans-boundary rivers : a welfare analysis of conflict and cooperation

Zeng, Yuyu; Houba, Harold; Dinar, Ariel; Marence, Miroslav - 2016

Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local … of institutional factors: (1) each country pursues its own interests, (2) efficient cooperation along the river and (3 … projects and their externalities. We demonstrate our approach for the Mekong River incorporating expert hydrological knowledge …

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