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Food Consumption, Paternalism and Economic Policy
Thunström, Linda - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008
overconsumption of food and analysis of the economic policy reforms designed to improve health. <p> Paper [I] estimates a hedonic … for food characteristics associated with health. A trade-off exists between health and taste. For instance, sugar, salt … implicit price for sugar is negative, consumers value health over its taste. Our results are the marginal implicit price for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207278
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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. - Tinbergen Instituut - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256324
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ESTIMATING WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR RELIABLE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY: A CHOICE EXPERIMENT STUDY
Ozbafli, Aygul; Jenkins, Glenn - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2013
This research examines households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for an improved electricity service. Households’ stated WTP is estimated using the choice experiment method (CE). The data used in the estimations came from 350 in-person interviews conducted during the period 5–22 August 2008 in...
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THE WILLINGNESS TO PAY BY HOUSEHOLDS FOR IMPROVED RELIABILITY OF ELECTRICITY SERVICE
Ozbafli, Aygul; Jenkins, Glenn P. - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2015
This research examines households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for an improved electricity service. Households’ WTP is estimated using the contingent valuation (CV) method on data from 350 in-person interviews in North Cyprus. In order to avoid the cost of outages, households are willing to...
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Fetişizarea analizei cost-beneficiu în decizia publică de alocare a resurselor
Mihaela, Iacob - In: Revista OEconomica (2011) 04
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), as a distinctive tool for public investment projects evaluation laying in the portfolio of the governmental authorities, strives to replicate the market in establishing economic standards for the measurement of their success, while the government’s actions are in...
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A Comparison of Benefit Cost and Cost Utility Analysis in Practice: Divergent Policies in Sweden
Hultkrantz, Lars; Svensson, Mikael - Handelshögskolan, Karlstads Universitet - 2012
priorities in allocation of national public funds in the transport sector and health sector, respectively, in Sweden. While the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539588
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Risk Aversion and the Value of Risk to Life
Bommier, Antoine; Villeneuve, Bertrand - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The standard literature on the value of life relies on Yaari’s (1965) model, which includes an implicit assumption of risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of nonadditively separable preferences. The enlargement we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837433
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Use of economic evaluation tools in environmental policymaking, with a focus on implications for children
SCAPECCHI, Pascale - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006
specific case of children’s environmental health, as recent epidemiological studies have highlighted the particular … on children’s health are taken into account in policymaking and if so, how this is done. Concluding remarks close the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007193
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ESTIMATING QALYS IN THE WESTERN REGION OF ROMANIA â€" THE CASE WITH INTERVENTION
Marius, Pantea; Delia, Gligor - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 290-299
change affecting both them and the producers. It is also the case of health services that, with Romaniaâ€(tm)s accession to … implementation. In health, the greatest difficulty for the documentation of investment projects is the main overall effect …, there is not currently a methodology to address the economic evaluation of investment projects in health. In this sense, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685516
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Risk Aversion and the Value of Risk to Life
Villeneuve, Bertrand; Bommier, Antoine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
The standard literature on the value of life relies on Yaari’s (1965) model, which includes an implicit assumption of risk neutrality with respect to life duration. To overpass this limitation, we extend the theory to a simple variety of nonadditively separable preferences. The enlargement we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166331