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Using life satisfaction and happiness data for environmental valuation : an experienced preference approach
Ferreira, Susana; Moro, Mirko; Welsch, Heinz - 2024
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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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898935
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Hedonic estimation under very general conditions using experimental and quasi-experimental designs
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2013
This paper develops a generalized hedonic model in which an exogenous shock to a single product attribute can affect other attributes, the markets for the product's complements and substitutes, and aggregate quantity produced. These factors are shown to be empirically relevant and to cause bias...
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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police
Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015
Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city....
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A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2020
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and decentralized private provision for their production. Our model integrates production versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295566
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Time, money, peers, and parents : some data and theories on teenage behavior
Kooreman, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001829708
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The demand for season of birth
Clarke, Damian; Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2016
We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also analyze stated preferences for season of birth using our own Amazon Mechanical Turk survey. The prevalence of quarters 2 and 3 is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517591
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Partial identification of willingness-to-pay using shape restrictions with an application to the value of a statistical life
Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2010
Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688857
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Fighting climate change: the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand Chopra, Felix; … - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change - as measured through an incentivized donation decision - is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
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There and back again : women's marginal commuting costs
Bergemann, Annette; Brunow, Stephan; Stockton, Isabel - 2024
We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a … differences in labour market biographies. For estimation, we use a stratified partial likelihood model on a large administrative … dataset for West Germany to flexibly account for both unobserved individual heterogeneity and changes dependent on wages and …
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