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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622243
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Measuring the willingness to pay for houses in a sustainable neighborhood
Tan, Teck Hong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
neighborhood attributes of housing that incorporate sustainability objectives. In this study, 299 households from Kuala Lumpur and … sustainability as house buyers generally are willing to pay more to live in a sustainable neighborhood. In order to build a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004140
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The political economics of social health insurance: the tricky case of individuals’ preferences
Pfarr, Christian; Schmid, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Social health insurance systems can be designed with different levels of state involvement and varying degrees of redistribution. In this article we focus on citizens’ preferences regarding the design of their health insurance coverage including the extent of redistribution. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260119
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What triggers multiple job holding? An experimental investigation.
Dickey, Heather; Watson, Verity; Zangelidis, Alexandros - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents an empirical examination of individuals’ motivations for multiple-job holding or moonlighting. Theoretical models of moonlighting suggest that individuals to hold a second job for either financial reasons (they face hours-constraints in their first job) or non-pecuniary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566434
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Using rank and discrete choice data to estimate health state utility values on the QALY scale
Brazier, J; Rowen, D; Yang, Y; Tsuchiya, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Objective: Recent years have seen increasing interest in the use of ordinal methods to elicit health state utility values as an alternative to conventional methods such as standard gamble and time trade-off. However, in order to use these health state values in cost effectiveness analysis using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004830
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Research on Aquaculture in China
Zhou, Ang; Wang, Dong; Wang, Di - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper analyzes the state and conditions of aquaculture in South China Sea both from technological and economic … comparison on the cost between aquaculture sector and traditional agricultural sector, we conclude that China has a big potential … in aquaculture and the government should impulse this industry by necessary policy instrument. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108475
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Market differences in wild and farmed marine fish in the Spanish seafood market
Rodriguez, Gonzalo; Bande, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
, fishers and fish farmers, stemming from ecological, economical and social sustainability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112504
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Simulation Based Inference for Dynamic Multinomial Choice Models
Geweke, John; Houser, Dan; Keane, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
Our goal in this chapter is to explain concretely how to implement simulation methods in a very general class of models that are extremely useful in applied work: dynamic discrete choice models where one has available a panel of multinomial choice histories and partially observed payoffs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260171
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Model of the 2000 Presidential Election: Instrumenting for Ideology
Fernandez, Jose; Cataiefe, Guido - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In a spatial model of voting, a voter's utility for a candidate is a function of ideological distance from the candidate and a candidate's quality. Candidate quality can potentially bias the measure of ideological distance in two ways. First, voters may be more drawn to high quality candidates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079300
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Measuring the recreational use value of migratory shorebirds on the Delaware Bay
Myers, Kelley H.; Parsons, George R.; Edwards, Peter E.T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this article we estimate the recreational use value of household trips to view shorebirds during the annual horseshoe crab/shorebird migration on the Delaware Bay. We use contingent valuation to estimate the value of day and overnight trips separately and use a discrete choice question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397160