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Gender Bias Among Children in India in their Diet and Immunisation Against Disease
Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers … disadvantage than that engendered solely by gender. These were the consequences which stemmed from children being born to …This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541479
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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233487
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Examining Projection Bias in Experimental Auctions: The Role of Hunger and Immediate Gratification
Teresa, Briz; Drichoutis, Andreas; Nayga, Rodolfo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The relevance of projection bias in decision making processes has been widely studied, but not specifically in experimental auctions. We study the role of projection bias in experimental auctions by examining the bidding behavior of hungry and non-hungry subjects on food products delivered...
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An Analysis of Willingness to Pay for Better Solid Waste Management Services in Urban Areas of District Peshawar
Khattak, Naeem Ur Rehman; Khan, Jangraiz; Ahmad, Iftikhar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Growing quantity of solid waste is one of the most important environmental hazards prevailing in developing countries. It is difficult for the government in developing countries like Pakistan to rectify it properly due to scarcity of resources. Public awareness and their monetary contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260425
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Identifying product attributes and consumer attitudes that impact willingness-to-pay for a nutraceutical-rich juice product
Lawless, Lydia J.R.; Drichoutis, Andreas; Nayga, Rodolfo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
A non-hypothetical Becker–DeGroot–Marschak (BDM) auction-like mechanism was utilized to determine consumer characteristics, attitudinal factors, and product sensory attributes that affect willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a nutraceutical-rich juice blend (75%Concord+12%Pomegranate+13%Black...
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Retail demand for voluntary carbon offsets – a choice experiment among Swiss consumers
Blasch, Julia; Farsi, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using a choice experiment conducted among more than a thousand Swiss consumers, we analyze the individual demand for voluntary carbon offsets in different contexts. The analysis is used to identify the consumers’ underlying motives for offsetting emissions, the context effects on their...
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On environmental concern, willingness to pay, and postmaterialist values: Evidence from Istanbul
Gökşen, Fatoş; Adaman, Fikret; Zenginobuz, Unal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
We explore the impact of geographical proximity of environmental problems on environmental concern and willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental improvement, with emphasis on the relevance of Inglehart’s postmaterialism thesis on this inquiry. A questionnaire was administered to 1565...
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Validation of empirical measures of welfare change: comment
Boyle, Kevin J.; Welsh, Michael P.; Bishop, Richard C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988
In an excellent article from a recent issue of this journal, Sellar, Stoll and Chavas (1985) make a technical error which causes them to misstate their closed-ended estimates of willingness to pay. Truncation of the estimated cummulative distribution function must we made explicit in compution...
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Income redistribution: how to divide the pie?
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
types of recipients (old-age pensioners, people with ill health, the unemployed, working poor, and families with children …
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Two explanations to the willingness to accept and willingness to pay gap plus an alternative
Beja Jr, Edsel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The gap between the willingness to accept and willingness to pay is the outcome of incomplete valuation. The problem therefore is more about completing the valuation procedure. The first part of the solution involves two items: one is the inclusion of the direct and indirect income effects and...
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