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In the debate on international waste trade, the focus on resource efficiency and recycling has gradually begun to …
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respond to, the assumed environmental measure. In this paper we undertake an alternative stated preference (SP) approach that … knowledge this is the first stated preference study examining respondents' willingness to pay for properties using a …
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We estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for better quality of tap water on a unique cross-section sample from 10 OECD countries. On the pooled sample, households are willing to pay 7.5% of the median annual water bill to improve the tap water quality. The highest relative WTP for better tap water...
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Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and potential users, this paper provides one of the...
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willingness to pay values in the two countries, their magnitudes differ, pointing to differences in preference structure. Second … the cost of decision making associated with choice of a health insurance contract. -- Preference measurement ; Willingness …
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Low-quality infrastructure services are persistent in developing countries, a situation mainly affecting the poorest households in contexts of high rates of informal access and heavily subsidized services. This paper exploits choice experiments, specifically designed for formal and informal...
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Multi-attribute stated preference data, derived through choice experiments, is used to investigate the consequence of a … finite number of preference groups in a sample of Yorkshire Water residential customers on the conditional distributions of … presence of a finite number of 2, 3, 4 and 5 latent preference groups (classes), and contrast these with the presence of a …
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; choice experiment ; contingent valuation ; landscape ; heuristics ; information ; preference formation ; public goods …
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: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed preference tasks. We show that both kinds of task can produce consistent … clarifies some of the conflicting evidence regarding revealed and stated preference methods, but raises potentially productive …
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This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries. We implement a field experiment in the slums of two major Indian cities, where inadequate access to sanitation restricts residents to either free ride, by...
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