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The Endowment Effect in a Public Good Experiment

Lopez, Edward J.; Nelson, W. Robert - EconWPA - 2005

Previous tests of the endowment effect have usually observed WTA-WTP disparities. Here, a public good experiment is employed. Both account framing and duration framing treatments are introduced to alter subjects’ perceived control over an initial endowment. Results do not indicate that...

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The Impacts of Taste, Location of Origin, and Health Information on Market Demand for Sweet Potatoes

Nalley, Lanier; Hudson, Darren; Parkhurst, Greg - EconWPA - 2004

Location of product origin is an often-used marketing device by retailers. This approach is based on the assumption that location of origin signals something to consumers about the underlying quality (or other attributes) of the product. This can be an effective strategy if the signal matches...

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Semiparametric Estimation of Willingness to Pay Distributions

An, Mark Yuying - EconWPA - 1996

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Dying in an Avalanche: Current risks and Valuation

Leiter, Andrea M.; Pruckner, Gerald J. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the influence of implicit information associated with the occurrence of avalanches on willingness to pay (WTP) values for a risk prevention of dying in an avalanche. We present results of a contingent valuation (CV) study carried out in Austria in two different periods (fall...

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Unit income elasticity of the value of travel time savings

Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2005

The paper presents an analysis of the income elasticity of the value of travel time savings (VTTS). It expands on previous micro-econometric estimates of the VTTS on binary choice experimental data by accounting for income taxes, for the dependence of trip length on income and for the stochastic...

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PROPERTY CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WTP AND WTA

Shastri, Rahul - EconWPA - 2005

It is well known in Environmental Economics that payment offered on the Willingness to Pay (WTP) principle is much smaller than the compensation demanded on the Willingness to Accept (WTA) principle. Payment under WTP goes into the environment and is communally enjoyed, whereas compensation...

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Curbside Recycling: Waste Resource or Waste of Resources?

Aadland, David; Caplan, Arthur J. - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, we estimate the social net benefits of curbside recycling. Benefits are estimated using survey data on household willingness to pay (WTP) from over 4,000 households across 40 western U.S. cities. We calibrate WTP for hypothetical bias using an experimental design that contrasts...

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Metodología estadística para estudios de Disponibilidad a Pagar (DAP) aplicada a un proyecto de Abastecimiento de Agua

romero, adela parra; franco, viviana vargas; palma, … - EconWPA - 2005

Los estudios de DAP han sido implementados en el sector de Agua potable y saneamiento (AAS), como una herramienta que ayuda a determinar con mayor acierto la viabilidad financiera ex-ante de proyectos de abastecimiento de agua y saneamiento básico, y en un sentido más amplio promover un mejor...

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Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labour Markets

Silvia, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005

Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to assess many arguments made in the abstract during the 1990s about the implications of monetary union. This contribution does precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls...

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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …

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