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Composite Valuation of Immaterial Damage in Flooding: Value of Statistical Life, Value of Statistical Evacuation and Value of Statistical Injury

Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...

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The WTP for Facilities at the Amsterdam Zuidas

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Rodenburg, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Crowding Externalities from Tourist Use of Urban Space

Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter; Leeuwen, Eveline van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Popular urban tourist destinations are attracting large numbers of both overnight visitors and excursionists. Since urban cities perform a multitude of functions, the space requirements of tourists can, at times, interfere with those of local users. This paper addresses the issue of disutilities...

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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 Instituut - 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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Consumer Valuation of Driving Range: A Meta-Analysis

Dimitropoulos, Alexandros; Rietveld, Piet; Ommeren, Jos … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We perform a meta-analysis of studies investigating consumers' preferences for electric and other alternative fuel vehicles to provide insights into the way consumers trade off driving range for capital costs. We find that consumers are willing to pay, on average, between 47 and 64 USD for a...

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The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality - Evidence from Targeted Incentives to retire early

Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the Netherlands. Among the older workers we focus on, a group of civil servants became eligible for retirement...

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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …

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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice

Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

time preference are not considered simultaneously. We correct for differential mortality risk, risk aversion and …

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Inequity in the Face of Death

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Schokkaert, Erik; Ourti, Tom Van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

We apply the theory of inequality in opportunity to measure inequity in mortality. Ourempirical work is based on a rich … dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that … distinguishing between differentchannels via which mortality is affected is necessary to test the sensitivity of the results …

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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: Technical Report

Cramer, J.S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

and the mortalitydata. The second section discusses the variation of mortality rateswith age in the population and in the …

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