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Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Reduce Land Conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - CESifo - 2014

first, low-cost pass at empirical evaluation, we conduct an experiment among farmers in the Ethiopian highlands, a region …

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Afriat’s Theorem for General Budget Sets

Forges, Francoise; Minelli, Enrico - CESifo - 2006

Afriat (1967) showed the equivalence of the strong axiom of revealed preference and the existence of a solution to a set of linear inequalities. From this solution he constructed a utility function rationalizing the choices of a competitive consumer. We extend Afriat’s theorem to a class of...

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Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland

Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2004

This study investigates spatial segregation of the population in fiscally decentralized urban areas. The theoretical part proposes the progressivity of local income taxes as a new explanation for income segregation. The empirical part studies how income tax differentials across municipalities in...

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A Panel Data Study of Physicians’ Labor Supply: The Case of Norway

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bratberg, Espen; Holmås, Tor Helge - CESifo - 2003

Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it … provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with … other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation is estimated using a sample of 1303 physicians observed over the …

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

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - CESifo - 2010

elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …

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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

In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called “dead-anyway” effect discovered by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality risk increases with the initial level of risk....

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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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