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health and the market economy from which damage to these ecosystems stems as an integrated system. We find that willingness …
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from a hedonic model of health care in which heterogenous individuals choose how much to spend on medical services that … their federal administrative records. The mean VSL is approximately $1 million at age 67 and increasing in health, income …
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Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …
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between the environment and individual well-being. First, in explicitly recognizing how optimizing behavior, particularly in … focus of analysis beyond traditional health outcomes to include measures of human capital, including labor supply … importance of health and human capital as an engine for economic growth, these findings underscore the role of environmental …
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the experiment. High prices reduce take-up but are privately profitable. Self-reported health measures improve. We …
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We develop an experimental framework to identify the belief-based and taste-based drivers of demand for Environmental … negative performance beliefs--ESG-labeled profiles are perceived as less profitable and less accessible. To isolate taste … about profitability obscure an underlying taste for ESG …
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This paper explores whether misperceptions about air pollution contribute to environmental inequality in the United States. We use a two-part survey experiment to elicit respondents' beliefs about local air quality and pollution's effects on life expectancy. We document how misperception differs...
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New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when it...
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This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia....
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"Nudge"-style interventions are often deemed "successful" if they cause large behavior change, but they are rarely subjected to full social welfare evaluations. We combine a field experiment with a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the welfare effects of one especially policy-relevant...
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