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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009

-market valuation ; cost-benefit analysis ; air pollution …

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Nitsch, Volker - 2009

Airport noise is costly. Airport location is typically associated with lower property prices. Airport expansion often sparks protests by local residents. In this paper, I provide new evidence on the costs of airport-related noise (and other disamenities of airports) for individuals. In contrast...

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Drought and groundwater management

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Jensen, Frank - 2016

This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an uncertain date. Three management policies are investigated: i) a laissez-faire (open-access) policy of automatic adjustment through a zero marginal private net benefit condition,...

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A tale of two roads : groundwater depletion in the North China Plain

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Deng, Xiangzheng; Gong, Yazhen; … - 2023

. In addition, there is greater depletion of the groundwater in wells near the two highways relative to wells located …

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The willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions : a comparison of the United States and Canada

Alberini, Anna; Krupnick, Alan J.; Cropper, Maureen L.; … - 2002

We present results for two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Hamilton, Canada and the US to elicit WTP for mortality risk reductions. We find similar Value of Statistical Life estimates across the two studies, ranging from USD 930,000 to USD 4.8 million (2000 US dollars). WTP increases...

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The marginal cost of public funds : a brief guide

Bastani, Spencer - 2023

When deciding on the social desirability of public investment, the cost of a project is sometimes adjusted by a factor known as the Marginal Cost of Public Funds (MCPF) which captures the cost of raising public funds through distortionary taxation. However, there is no scholarly consensus on...

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Pollution and city size : can cities be too small?

Borck, Rainald; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is …, if pollution is local or per capita pollution increases with population, we find that equilibrium cities are too large …. When pollution is global and per capita pollution declines with city size, however, equilibrium cities may be too small …

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Corrective taxation for curbing pollution and promoting green product design and recycling

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2000

which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative …

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Smart cap

Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2021

We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...

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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution

Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Gomez Mahecha, John; … - 2020

robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …

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