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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects : A Plethora of Systematic Biases

Graves, Philip E. - 2013

There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...

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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects: A Plethora of Systematic Biases

Graves, Philip E. - CESifo - 2010

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Lift and Shift : The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time

Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2017

Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time. To...

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A Note on the Design of Experiments Involving Public Goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2021

Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...

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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne - 2013

In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...

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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - CESifo - 2009

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A Note on the Design of Experiments Involving Public Goods

Graves, Philip E. - CESifo - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671727

Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well-being … more rapid growth in life satisfaction. These results together suggest that measured subjective well-being grows hand in …

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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2010

(subjective wellbeing). We also find strong empirical support for the disappointment effect in countries with low social mobility …

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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