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Valuing Public Goods Using Happiness Data: The Case of Air Quality
Levinson, Arik - Georgetown University, Department of Economics - 2009
Protection Agency's Air Quality System (AQS) to find the level of pollution in those locations on the dates the survey questions … interviewed on days when air pollution was worse than the local seasonal average report lower levels of happiness. Combining these … for air pollution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013001
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Valuing public goods using happiness data: The case of air quality
Levinson, Arik - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 9-10, pp. 869-880
pollution and weather on the date and in the place they were surveyed. People with higher incomes report higher levels of … happiness, and people interviewed on days with worse local air pollution report lower levels of happiness. Combining these two … differential for short-term changes in air pollution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011056199
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Spatial heterogeneity of willingness to pay for forest management
Czajkowski, Mikolaj; Budzinski, Wiktor; Campbell, Danny; … - Environmental Economics Research Group, Department of … - 2015
, derived from a discrete choice experiment (DCE) study. We find that respondents’ WTP is higher the closer they live to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213708
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Willingness to contribute to the management of recreational quality on private lands in Finland
Lankia, Tuija; Neuvonen, Marjo; Pouta, Eija; Sievänen, … - In: Journal of Forest Economics 20 (2014) 2, pp. 141-160
In Finland, privately owned nature areas are widely used for recreation due to open public access. However, since landowners are not obligated to take everyman's rights into consideration when making management decisions, the recreational quality of nature areas is not guaranteed for users. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011047932
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Spatial heterogeneity of willingness to pay for forest management
Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Budziński, Wiktor; Campbell, Danny; … - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2015
, derived from a discrete choice experiment (DCE) study. We find that respondents’ WTP is higher the closer they live to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194323
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20 years of stated preference valuation of non-timber benefits from Fennoscandian forests: A meta-analysis
Lindhjem, Henrik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Stated preference (SP) surveys have been conducted to value non-timber benefits (NTBs) from forests in Norway, Sweden and Finland for about 20 years. The paper first reviews the literature and summarises methodological traditions in SP research in the three countries. Second, a meta-regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617090
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The economic valuation of natural hazards in mountain forests: An approach based on the replacement cost method
Notaro, Sandra; Paletto, Alessandro - In: Journal of Forest Economics 18 (2012) 4, pp. 318-328
Protection from natural hazards is the most important function of mountain forests from an ecological, economic and social point of view. This assertion has been widely debated in recent years by a number of authors. In this paper we focus on the economic aspects of the protective function of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010588149
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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and …), on the benefits of a commonly used improved stove that laboratory tests showed to reduce indoor air pollution and require …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271429
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The demand for climate protection—Empirical evidence from Germany
Löschel, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo; Vogt, Carsten - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 3, pp. 415-418
An experiment designed to find the real demand for climate protection was conducted among a sample of the residential … European Union Allowances which were then withdrawn from the European Emissions Trading Scheme. Our experiment showed a median …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011041857
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Revealed preferences for climate protection when the purely individual perspective is relaxed: Evidence from a framed field experiment
Löschel, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo; Uehleke, Reinhard - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
experiment were offered the opportunity to contribute to climate protection by purchasing European Union Allowances. Allowances … purchased were withdrawn from the European Emissions Trading Scheme. In our experiment, information about other subjects …
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