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In Europe, economic evaluation of flood management projects is becoming a commonly used decision tool. At the same time …, flood management policies shift towards new concepts such as giving more room to water by restoring floodplain and living … damage on agriculture may have a high influence on the efficiency of these policies, flood damage assessment on agricultural …
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Suicide attack is the most virulent and horrifying form of terrorism in the world today. The mere rumor of an impending … majority of all terrorism-related casualties, and the rate of attacks is rising rapidly across the globe. During 2000 … carried out by Islamist groups claiming religious motivation, also known as jihadis. Rand Corp. vice president and terrorism …
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Contemporary suicide terrorists from the Middle East are publicly deemed crazed cowards bent on senseless destruction who thrive in poverty and ignorance. Recent research indicates they have no appreciable psychopathology and are as educated and economically well-off as surrounding populations....
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standard property insurance and for catastrophe coverage (here, terrorism). We find that larger companies are more likely to … insurance for non-catastrophe risks. This result differs from the findings on individual demand for insurance. The terrorism … price elasticity of the demand for terrorism insurance is half in this area relative to the rest of the country. …
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AbstractThis paper concerns the difficulty of taking long-term effects on health into account in an economic valuation. Indeed, public decision makers should incorporate the cessation lag between implementation of an abatement policy and achievement of all of the expected mortality-related...
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This paper presents the first study of environmental inequality related to health in France at the national scale. Through an econometric analysis based on a panel data from 2000 to 2004 at a department level, we investigate total mortality rate in relation to socioeconomic status and air...
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This paper examines the link between health inequalities, air pollution and political institutions. In health economics literature, many studies have assessed the association between environmental degradation and health outcomes. This paper extends this literature by investigating how air...
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Congestion pricing as a transport demand management measure is difficult to implement because most of motorists expect a deterioration of their welfare. Tradable driving rights (TDR), that is allocating quotas of driving rights for free to urban inhabitants, could be a more acceptable...
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We explore the influence of a neutral cheap talk script in three typical scenarios used in the CV literature devoted to the valuation of air pollution effects. We show that cheap talk has a differentiated effect depending on the scenario implemented. It decreases protest responses with no effect...
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In this paper, we extend the individual dynamic model of life-time resource allocation to assess the monetary value given to the increase in survival probabilities of every member of a household induced by improved air quality. We then interpret this monetary value as a flow of Value of Life...
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