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The use of willingness to pay experiments : estimating demand for piped water connections in Sri Lanka

Van Houtven, George L. (contributor) - 2006

"The authors show how willingness to pay surveys can be used to gauge household demand for improved network water and … in 2003. Using multivariate regression, they show that a complex combination of factors drives demand for service … improvements. While poverty and costs are found to be key determinants of demand, the authors also find that location, self …

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Welfare measurement bias in household and on-site surveying of water-based recreation : an application to Lake Sevan, Armenia

Meisner, Craig - 2006

"Studies comparing household surveys with on-site interceptor surveys have typically accounted for over-sampling avid users in the on-site interceptor surveys (that is, endogenous stratification). However, these studies have typically not accounted for the possibility that the household sample...

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Estimating willingness-to-pay with random valuation models : an application to Lake Sevan, Armenia

Laplante, Benoît (contributor) - 2004

"This paper presents a case study of willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimation using random valuation models. A contingent valuation survey was conducted in Yerevan, Armenia to estimate people's WTP for the protection of Lake Sevan. Three elicitation formats - open-ended, closed-ended, and the...

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Costs of taxation and the benefits of public goods : the role of income effects

Martin, Will - 2005

"The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify much lower measures of the marginal welfare cost of taxes and greater public good provision than indicated by traditional, compensated analyses. The authors confirm that this...

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Equitable provision of long-term public goods : the role of negotiation mandates

Hourcade, Jean-Charles - 2003

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Can Demand for Toilets be Encouraged? Evidence from Indonesia

World Bank - 2014

increase the number of toilets in poor, rural areas. An impact evaluation of a program to foster demand for toilets by raising …

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Yemen : Towards Qat Demand Reduction

World Bank - 2012

This report, based on a household survey conducted in 2006, discusses options for discouraging qat consumption in Yemen. It draws on a survey-the first representative data collection exercise aimed specifically at assessing the qat consumption phenomena-which confirms that the use of this drug...

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Patterns in household demand and saving

Lluch, Constantino - 1977

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The value of mortality risk reductions in Delhi, India

Bhattacharya, Soma - 2006

"The authors interviewed commuters in Delhi, India, asking them to report their willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce their risk of dying in road traffic accidents in each of three scenarios that mirror the circumstances under which the majority of the road fatalities in Delhi occur. The WTP...

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Environment as cultural heritage : the Armenian diaspora's willingness-to-pay

Laplante, Benot - 2005

"Laplante, Meisner, and Wang present a study of willingness-to-pay of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan, a unique and precious symbol of the Armenian cultural heritage. Dichotomous choice contingent valuation questions were asked in mail surveys to elicit...

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