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Changing Abundance of Elephants and Willingness to Pay for their Conservation
Bandara, Ranjith; Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004
This paper explores the way in which the stated willingness to pay for the conservation of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka varies with hypothetical variations in their abundance. To do that, it relies on results from a sample of residents of Colombo. The willingness to pay function is found to be...
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Outcomes and Determinants of Success of a Performance Payment Scheme for Carnivore Conservation
Zabel, Astrid; Bostedt, Goran; Engel, Stefanie - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
This paper presents a first empirical assessment of carnivore conservation under a performance payment scheme. The Swedish government issues payments to reindeer herder villages based on the number of carnivore offspring certified on their pastures. The villages decide on the internal use and...
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Outcomes and Determinants of Success of a Performance Payment Scheme for Carnivore Conservation
Zabel, Astrid; Bostedt, Göran; Engel, Stefanie - CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics - 2010
Sweden’s pioneer performance payment scheme. Carnivores in northern Sweden depend on reindeer as prey which causes conflicts … strategy. The hypotheses developed are tested with empirical village and household-level data from Sweden. The paper concludes …
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Performance Payments for Groups: The Case of Carnivore Conservation in Northern Sweden
Zabel, Astrid; Bostedt, Göran; Engel, Stefanie - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 59 (2014) 4, pp. 613-631
Sweden, reindeer herder villages are paid based on the number of lynx (lynx lynx) and wolverine (gulo gulo) offspring …
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Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2010
Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the … can be done to stop climate change. We also found that Sweden has the highest WTP for reductions of CO2, while China has …
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Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the … can be done to stop climate change. We also find that Sweden has the highest WTP for reductions of CO2, while China has …
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Activation versus Other Employment Policies – Lessons for Germany
Calmfors, Lars - In: CESifo Forum 5 (2004) 2, pp. 35-42
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Sickness-related Absenteeism and Economic Incentives in Sweden: A History of Reforms
Andrén, Daniela - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 3, pp. 54-60
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Environmental Taxes: A Comparison of French and Swedish Experience from Taxes on Industrial Air Pollution
Millock, Katrin; Nauges, Céline; Sterner, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 1, pp. 30-34
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The distributional impacts of a universal school reform on mathematical achievements: A natural experiment from Canada
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 137-160
We investigate the impact of an ambitious provincial school reform in Canada on students’ mathematical achievements. It is the first paper to exploit a universal school reform of this magnitude to identify the causal effect of a widely supported teaching approach on students’ math scores....
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