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France's Environmental Policies: Internalising Global and Local Externalities

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012

France has a very ambitious environmental-policy agenda, aimed chiefly at cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but also at dealing with local air and water pollution, waste management and the conservation of biodiversity. The laws that followed the Grenelle de l’environnement encompass...

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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - CESifo - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens’ preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...

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Measuring the Consumption Value of Higher Education

Alstadsæter, Annette - CESifo - 2009

This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...

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The Consumption Value of Higher Education

Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - CESifo - 2009

The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual’s educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...

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Public-Good Valuation and Intrafamily Allocation

Strand, Jon - CESifo - 2004

I derive values of marginal changes in a public good for two-person households, measured alternatively by household member i’s willingness to pay (WTP) for the good on behalf of the household, WTPi(H), or by the sum of individual WTP values across family members, WTP(C). Households are assumed...

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The Dead-anyway Effect Revis(it)ed

Breyer, Friedrich; Felder, Stefan - CESifo - 2002

discovered by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality …

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What You Ask is What You Get: Willingness-to-Pay for a QALY in Germany

Ahlert, Marlies; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - CESifo - 2013

We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked in various scenarios for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a gain of one quality-adjusted life year. While one version of the survey exactly copied the setting (online survey) and...

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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - CESifo - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the …

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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe

Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2012

example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

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Fertility, Mortality, and the Developed World’s Demographic Transition

Fehr, Hans; Jokisch, Sabine; Kotlikoff, Laurence - CESifo - 2004

changes in fertility and mortality on the developed world’s demographic transition. The model features three regions – the U ….S., Japan, and the EU-15 – and incorporates age- and time-specific fertility and mortality rates, detailed fiscal institutions … economic consequences of both higher fertility and lower mortality rates. The simulations indicate very minor effects on the …

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