Stated preference approaches are widely used in non-market valuation. However, their potential uses extend far beyond … valuation. In particular they can be used to assess efficiency of resource allocations and to design optimal resource … gains from reallocation of the budget to items with higher marginal utility. In particular, New Zealand residents want more …

Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular the poor, are still engaged in behavior carrying social … data. In this paper, merging a unique long-term gift exchange record with a census-type panel survey over three waves in … behavior in the Chinese society. Three identification strategies are applied to identify peer influence, namely conventional IV …

proposed policy options in the Upper Waikato catchment. In the first phase nitrogen emissions are determined for representative …

This paper explores the potential for the Georgia’s schools to participate in the Farm to School program. Primary and …

This paper examined cost efficiency differences between rural hospitals participating in the Critical Access Hospital …-parametric approach as well as stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). CAHs receive Medicare cost-based reimbursement, in contrast with the … been associated with inefficiency in hospital operations and, consequently, concerns have been raised about the efficiency …

obesity in urban food markets. Our empirical model combined georeferenced micro data on access to fast food restaurants and … reducing the density of fast food restaurants or increasing access to grocery stores. We accounted for spatial heterogeneity in …

comments from Robert Frank, David Sahn, Marc Rockmore, and seminar participants in the Department of Economics at Cornell. Due … to time limit, I have not incorporated all helpful comments and suggestions in this early draft paper. The views …