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Valuing ecosystem services in general equilibrium
Carbone, Jared C. - 2010
. Demand for these goods shifts due to the introduction of pollution regulations that deliver improvements in ecosystem …
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Uncertainty In Environmental Economics
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2006
-- over the physical and ecological impact of pollution, over the economic costs and benefits of reducing it, and over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465909
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The Cost of Uncertain Life Span
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2008
adult life span is about 15 years in the U.S., and theory and evidence suggest it is costly. I calibrate a utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464552
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The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care
Becker, Gary - 2007
spending. There exists no positive theory that attempts to explain the high degree of end-of life spending and why differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465319
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children : Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Birchenall, Javier A. - 2007
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … evaluation of current policies. Our model clarifies a series of puzzles from the literature on the "value of life" and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465820
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Complementarity and the Measurement of Individual Risk Tradeoffs : Accounting for Quantity and Quality of Life Effects
Evans, Mary F. - 2008
This paper considers the factors responsible for differences with age in estimates of the wage compensation an individual requires to accept increased occupational fatality risk. We derive a relationship between the value of a statistical life (VSL) and the degree of complementarity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464924
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Evaluating the Welfare State
Heckman, James J. - 1998
-used econometric evaluation estimators and relate them to the requirements of a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis. We present … evidence on how the inference from the most commonly used econometric evaluation estimator is modified when the direct costs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472265
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How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Non-Market Valuation? An Example from the Preference Reversal Literature
Alevy, Jonathan E. - 2010
evaluation modes, in which stated economic values critically depend on whether the good is valued jointly with others or in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462616
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Economic Growth and the Environment : A Review of Theory and Empirics
Brock, William A. - 2004
This paper reviews both theory and empirical work on economic growth and the environment. We develop four simple growth … potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467835
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Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change
Popp, David - 2009
environment. Our goals are to introduce technological change economists to how the lessons of the economics of technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463815