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This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare...
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Averse types of investors. We develop a stochastic spanning approach for each type of investor. Using the Stochastic Spanning …
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This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare...
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. At the same time, there is discussion regarding the robustness of the results of empirical growth studies. In a seminal … paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … along several dimensions, acknowledging the complexity of therobustness concept. Our findings show that the robustness of …
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period and a bigger sample than in previous studies. In addition to robustness tests that focus on model uncertainty, we …We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time …
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This study aims to identify robust push and pull factors of human trafficking. I test for the robustness of 78 push and …
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