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Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective …

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The Information Content of a Stated Choice Experiment

Rouwendal, Jan; Blaeij, Arianne de; Rietveld, Piet; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

participants to a stated choice experiment, that does not require the researcher to make an a priori assumption on the type of … illustrated using data from an experiment investigating the value of time and the value of statistical life. We discuss the …

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Early Retirement: The Impact of Changes in the Benefit Level

Nelissen, Jan H.M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

In the Netherlands a transition takes place from early retirement schemes, which are characterized by high implicit tax rates to schemes that have a higher degree of actuarial fairness. in this paper we look at the impact of this change at the labor participation rates of 55 to 65 years old...

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The Willingness to pay for Quality Aspects of Durables: Theory and Application to the Car Market

Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Conventional hedonic analysis measures willingness to pay for attributes on the basis of marginal fixed costs. We argue that in many cases variable costs are also affected by these attributes and that this should be taken into account. We develop a simple model to show that the marginal...

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The WTP for Facilities at the Amsterdam Zuidas

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Rodenburg, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper reports the results of a stated preference study investigating the Willingness-to-pay (WTP) of employees at the Amsterdam Zuidas for the presence of non-shopping and shopping facilities. The Amsterdam Zuidas area, surrounding the current train-metro-tram station Amsterdam Zuid...

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Control without Deception

Bardsley, Nicholas - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

in a public good experiment prompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from a deceptive design, that subjects are more … sensitive to free-riding than cooperation on the part of others. The experiment provides similar results to Weimann's, in that … explain decay in contributions in repeated play designs. The experiment shows there is a workable alternative to deception.<BR><BR> …

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Conditional Cooperation and Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays a repeated public good game to a strangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations. Subjects in the partners condition contribute from the first period on significantly more to the public...

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...

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Partners contribute more to Public Goods than Strangers: Conditional Cooperation

Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 1997

In a series of experiments, we compare a situation where the same group of four subjects plays 25 repetitions of a public good game (partners condition) to a situation where subjects play this game in changing group formations over 25 periods (strangers condition). We observe that, on aggregate...

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