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Who Counts in Evaluating the Effects of Air Pollution Policies on Households? Non-Market Valuation in the Presence of Dependencies

Smith, V. Kerry; Evans, Mary F.; Poulos, Christine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Individuals who are likely to realize the largest benefits from improvements in air quality often depend on other members of their households to make time or monetary contributions to their care. The presence of these dependency relationships among household members poses challenges for benefit...

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Valuing a Homeland Security Policy: Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles

Smith, V. Kerry; Mansfield, Carol; Clayton, Laurel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper reports estimates for the ex ante tradeoffs for three specific homeland security policies that all address a terrorist attack on commercial aircraft with shoulder mounted missiles. Our analysis focuses on the willingness to pay for anti-missile laser jamming countermeasures mounted on...

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Estimating the General Equilibrium Benefits of Large Policy Changes: The Clean Air Act Revisited

Smith, V. Kerry; Banzhaf, Spencer; Sieg, Holger; Walsh, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

This paper reports the first comprehensive approach for measuring the general equilibrium willingness to pay for large changes in air quality. It is based on a well defined locational equilibrium model. The approach allows estimation of households' indirect utility function and the underlying...

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Do Citizens Want the Truth about Terrorist Threats Regardless of the Consequences?

Smith, V. Kerry; Mansfield, Carol; Klaiber, H. Allen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper proposes the use of consumers' preferences in formulating policies for keeping secret information about terrorist activities and threats that might compromise future security. We report the results from two surveys indicating that people have clear preferences for full disclosure of...

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The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and its Transformational Role for Policy Evaluation

Smith, V. Kerry; Kuminoff, Nicolai V.; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Households "sort" across neighborhoods according to their wealth and their preferences for public goods, social characteristics, and commuting opportunities. The aggregation of these individual choices in markets and in other institutions influences the supply of amenities and local public...

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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H; MAIRESSE, Jacques; Lotti, Francesca - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …

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Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries

Griffith, Rachel; Huergo, Elena; MAIRESSE, Jacques; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …

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Identifying Age, Cohort and Period Effects in Scientific Research Productivity: Discussion and Illustration Using Simulated and Actual Data on French Physicists

Hall, Bronwyn H; MAIRESSE, Jacques; Turner, Laure - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The identification of age, cohort (vintage), and period (year) effects in a panel of individuals or other units is an old problem in the social sciences, but one that has not been much studied in the context of measuring researcher productivity. In the context of a semi-parametric model of...

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

Jaumandreu, Jordi; MAIRESSE, Jacques; Peters, Bettina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...

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Innovation and Welfare: Results from Joint Estimation of Production and Demand Functions

Jaumandreu, Jordi; MAIRESSE, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …

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