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Composite Valuation of Immaterial Damage in Flooding: Value of Statistical Life, Value of Statistical Evacuation and Value of Statistical Injury
Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2012
This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions
Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...
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Scale, Scope and Cognition: Context Analysis of Multiple Stated Choice Experiments on the Values of Life and Limb
Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2012
choice experiments. The main interest of this paper is VOSL sensitivity to the valuation of correlated risks (scope effect …). Besides, we explore the role of cognition on the stability of valuation across choice experiments using age and education. We … pool data from multiple choice experiments and apply nested and mixed logit models in our analysis. We confirm …
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Screening Disability Insurance Applications
de Jong, Philip; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006
-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325318
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Optimal Confidence Intervals for the Tail Index and High Quantiles
Ferreira, Ana; de Vries, Casper G. - 2004
, but then a bias term with unknown sign has to be estimated. We provide an estimator for this sign and the full programme …. Simulation results are also presented.It is weIl known that extreme value parameter estimators which balance the asymptotic bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325182
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Economic Evaluation, Land/Water Use, and Sustainable Nature Conservation of 'De Vechtstreek' Wetlands
Bos, Ernst J.; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 1998
Elements of an integrated analysis of a land/water use and nature conservation in De Vechtstreek area are presented. This is a river plane composed of patches of lakes and polders, in the centre of The Netherlands. The attention is focused on the economic dimensions of the research. To this end,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324533
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Measuring the Economic Value of a Marine Protection Program against the Introduction of Non-Indigenous Species in the Netherlands
Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2002
Harmful algal bIoom species are the cause of important damages to marine living resources and human beings. These marine species are primarily introduced in North-European waters through ballast water, i.e. water trans-ported across the oceans so as to keep a vessel in balance. Port authorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325049
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The Costs and Benefits of Providing Open Space in Cities
Rouwendal, Jan; van der Straaten, J. Willemijn - 2008
Although many researchers have investigated the value of open space in cities, few of them have compared them to the costs of providing this amenity. In this paper, we use the monocentric model of a city to derive a simple cost-benefit rule for the optimal provision of open space. The rule is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325786
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Predicting Travel Time Variability for Cost-Benefit Analysis
Peer, Stefanie; Koopmans, Carl; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2010
Unreliable travel times cause substantial costs to travelers. Nevertheless, they are not taken into account in many cost-benefit-analyses (CBA), or only in very rough ways. This paper aims at providing simple rules on how variability can be predicted, based on travel time data from Dutch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325956
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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments
van Ewijk, Reyn - 2010
majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … existence of such a direct grading bias. I do find indirect evidence for alternative explanations: teachers report lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325886