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Can Stated Preference Methods Accurately Predict Responses to Environmental Policies? The Case of a Plastic Bag Regulation in China

He, Haoran - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

This study investigates the validity of using stated preference (SP) estimates to predict policy effects on plastic bag consumption. Before implementation of a plastic bag regulation, when bags were still free of charge, we utilized an SP survey to elicit consumers’ contingent bag consumption...

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Heterogeneous preferences for marine amenities: A choice experiment applied to water quality

Eggert, Håkan; Olsson, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

The marine environment provides many goods and services dependent upon the quality of coastal waters. In this paper, we represent water quality by three different attributes, fish stock level, bathing water quality, and biodiversity level, and carry out a choice experiment among residents on the...

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Relative Standing and Life-Satisfaction: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter?

Alem, Yonas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

of rich panel data to investigate the impact of relative standing on life satisfaction of respondents in urban Ethiopia …

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Life Satisfaction in Urban Ethiopia: Trends and determinants

Alem, Yonas; Köhlin, Gunnar - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

data models to investigate the trends and determinants of life satisfaction in urban Ethiopia. Although Ethiopia exhibited … rapid economic growth during the analyzed period, the average reported level of life satisfaction declined. Regression … and social conditions, many of the determinants of life satisfaction are similar. This includes, age, marital status …

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The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth - A Multiple Country Test of an Oath Script

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how they actually behave. In our study of climate change and emissions reductions, we took advantage of the...

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Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 emissions. We find that a large majority of the respondents in all three...

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Consumer willingness to pay for farm animal welfare - transportation of farm animals to slaughter versus the use of mobile abattoirs

Carlsson, Fredrik; Frykblom, Peter; Lagerkvist, Carl Johan - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

This study employed a choice experiment (CE) to ascertain consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for non-market food product quality attributes. Data were obtained from a large mail survey and estimated with a random parameter logit model. The results indicate that Swedish consumers...

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Does Benefit Transfer Always Work: a Multi-country Comparison

Abou-Ali, Hala; Belhaj, Mohammed - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of a 50 percent reduction in air pollution caused by road traffic in both Cairo (Egypt) and Rabat-Salé (Morocco) using a contingent valuation method with identical elicitation questions. Despite the fact that both the numbers of inhabitants and vehicles...

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Emotions, Morality and Public Goods: The WTA-WTP Disparity Revisited

Biel, Anders; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Nilsson, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

Empirical evidence suggests that people’s maximum willingness to pay for having a good is often substantially lower than their minimum willingness to accept not having it, and that this discrepancy tends to be especially large when valuing public goods. This paper hypothesizes that differences...

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Evaluating the welfare effects of improved water quality using the choice experiment method

Abou-Ali, Hala; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of improved health status through increased water quality using a choice experiment. The survey was administered to a random sample of households in metropolitan Cairo, Egypt. We apply a random parameter logit model in the analysis and illustrate the...

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