I derive the marginal value of a public good in multiperson households, measured alternatively by one household member’s willingness to pay (WTP) for the good on behalf of the household, or by the sum of individual WTP values across family members. Households are assumed to allocate their...

I derive values of marginal changes in a public good for two-person households, measured alternatively by household member i's willingness to pay (WTP) for the good on behalf of the household, WTPi(H), or by the sum of individual WTP values across family members, WTP(C). Households are assumed...

Traditionally, economists make a sharp distinction between stated and revealed preferences, viewing the latter as more fully meeting the assumptions of economic analysis. Here, we consider one form of empirical evidence regarding this belief: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed...

This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...

We present a stated-preference study where values of statistical lives (VSL) are derived both as public and private goods, and we distinguish between three different death causes, heart disease, environmentally related illnesses and traffic accidents. 1000 randomly chosen individuals in Norway...

Auf der Grundlage langjähriger Evaluierungserfahrung werden die von der Europäischen Kommission (EU-KOM) im Juni 2018 vorgelegten Verordnungsentwürfe zur Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) nach 2020 in Bezug auf den Europäischen Landwirtschaftsfonds für die Entwicklung des ländlichen Raums...

In der vorliegenden Stellungnahme untersuchen die Autor*innen im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, ob und wie inwieweit das Modell der Gemeinwohlprämie des Deutschen Verbands für Landschaftspflege für eine Umsetzung im Rahmen der Öko-Regelungen der GAP nach...

We develop and apply a new method for estimating the economic benefits of an environmental amenity. The method fits within the household production framework (Becker 1965), and is based upon the notion of estimating the derived demand for a privately traded option to utilize a freely-available...

We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral regularity. Yet, the number of conditional cooperators and the extent of conditional cooperation are much higher in the U.S.A. than anywhere else.