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We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory … values between study and policy contexts, or to up-scale values from study sites to the national scale. Our theory provides …
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A growing literature in economics uses subjective well-being data collected in surveys as a proxy for utility. Environmental economists have combined these data with the public goods experienced by respondents using a novel non-market valuation approach: the experienced preference approach. In...
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Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …
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Defense spending accounts for a large share of the budget in many countries, but the value of the resulting public good - national defense - has so far escaped assessment. Much of the literature has instead considered indirect benefits of defense spending in terms of greater economic growth or...
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I derive values of marginal changes in a public good for two-person households, measured alternatively by household member is̕ willingness to pay (WTP) for the good on behalf of the household, WTPi(H), or by the sum of individual WTP values across family members, WTP(C). Households are assumed...
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substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit considerably lower growth rates. Theory has shown that we should either … is scarce. We provide first comprehensive country-specific evidence, taking Germany as a case study. We estimate growth … studies in Germany. We find that the relative price of ecosystem services has increased by more than four percent per year in …
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While the global economy continues to grow, ecosystem services tend to stagnate or decline. Economic theory has shown … empirical evidence has been sparse to put theory into practice. To estimate the relative price change in ecosystem services that …
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We study the heterogeneity of preferences regarding the limited substitutability of environmental public goods vis-a-vis private consumption goods and how it affects the economic valuation of environmental public goods. We show theoretically that mean marginal willingness to pay for an...
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Using a revealed preference approach applied to administrative data from Washington we document that workers have limited discretion over hours at a given employer, there is substantial mismatch between workers who prefer long hours and employers that provide short hours, and hour constraints...
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