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Can subjective questions on economic welfare be trusted ? evidence for three developing countries

Ravallion, Martin; Himelein, Kristen; Beegle, Kathleen - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods can be deceptive given systematic heterogeneity in respondents'scales. Little is known about this problem. This study uses specially-designed surveys in three countries,...

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A resource allocation model for tiger habitat protection

Dasgupta, Susmita; Hammer, Dan; Kraft, Robin; Wheeler, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Habitat conservation is critical to the survival of endangered tigers. This paper develops a resource-allocation model for the protection of tiger habitats, using information on threats to particular tiger subspecies, the quality of remaining habitat areas, the observed effectiveness of habitat...

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Biodiversity and national accounting

Kirk, Hamilton. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Biodiversity, a property of natural areas, provides a range of benefits to the economy including bioprospecting rents …, knowledge and insurance, ecotourism fees, and ecosystem services. Many of these values can be broken out in the System of … countries harbor the great majority of biodiversity, and this diversity provides benefits, including knowledge and carbon …

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Ecosystems -- burden or bounty ?

Damania, Richard; Scandizzo, Pasquale Lucio; Glauber, A.J - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This paper presents a somewhat novel approach to explore the economic contribution of ecosystems. It develops linked models to capture connections between resource stocks and flows and the resulting microeconomic and macroeconomic impacts. A bioeconomic model is developed that is imbedded into a...

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Sea-level rise and coastal wetlands : impacts and costs

Blankespoor, Brian; Dasgupta, Susmita; Laplante, Benoit - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

Scientific evidence indicates that global warming could well lead to a sea-level rise of 1 meter or more in the 21st century. This paper seeks to quantify how a 1-meter sea-level rise that would affect coastal wetlands in 76 developing countries and territories, taking into account how much of...

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Nash equilibria of games when players'preferences are quasi-transitive

Basu, Kaushik; Pattanaik, Prasanta K. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Much of game theory is founded on the assumption that individual players are endowed with preferences that can be represented by a real-valued utility function. However, in reality human preferences are often not transitive. This is especially true for the indifference relation, which can lead...

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The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment

Toman, Michael - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Information on ecosystem characteristics as well as economic statistics is needed to more fully inform decision makers on the impacts of climate change on human well-being. Climate change risks involve potentially large and irreversible as well as highly uncertain impacts that need to be...

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Willingness to pay for air quality improvements in Sofia, Bulgaria

Whittington, Dale; Wang, Hua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

Through a survey the authors study willingness to pay for improvements in air quality in Sofia, Bulgaria. Using a stochastic payment car approach - asking respondents the likelihood that they would agree to pay a series of prices - they estimate the distribution of willingness to pay various...

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Well-being during a time of change : Timor-Leste on the path to independence

Richter, Kaspar - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

Countries undergoing fundamental economic and political transformations might experience differential adjustments in material well-being and empowerment. The author evaluates self-rated welfare and power changes in Timor-Leste covering the period prior to the 1999 referendum on independence from...

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On the measurement of product variety in trade

Feenstra, Robert; Kee, Hiau Looi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

Product variety plays an important role in the theoretical work on monopolistic competition and trade, and recent empirical work has begun to quantify this for aggregate and disaggregate import demands. The authors discuss the measurement of product variety in trade, using a broad cross-section...

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