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A novel approach to estimating the demand value of road safety
Rheinberger, Christoph M.; Schläpfer, Felix; Lobsiger, … - 2016 - This version March 8, 2016
We estimate the demand value of road safety improvements in Switzerland from survey data using a novel elicitation … approach. Individuals’ responses to questions about how much public spending on road safety should be increased are combined … with observations of income, tax rate, and road usage to estimate the economic value of a statistical accident avoided …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622075
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Pricing neighborhoods
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - 2023
Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...
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Welfare effects of road pricing and traffic information under alternative ownership regimes
Gubins, Sergejs; Verhoef, Erik T.; Graaff, Thomas de - 2010
, and end users, in the context of road transportation. Using a game-theoretical analysis of suppliers' pricing strategies …, we assess the social welfare effects of traffic information under various road markets with different ownership regimes … exactly the same, as traffic information is not strictly complementary to road use. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381856
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Welfare Effects of Road Pricing and Traffic Information Under Alternative Ownership Regimes
Gubins, Sergejs - 2010
, and end users, in the context of road transportation. Using a game-theoretical analysis of suppliers' pricing strategies …, we assess the social welfare effects of traffic information under various road markets with different ownership regimes … exactly the same, as traffic information is not strictly complementary to road use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138513
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The information content of a stated choice experiment
Rouwendal, Jan; Blaeij, Adriana Tanneke de; Rietveld, Piet - 2008 - This version: May 16, 2008
This paper presents a method to assess the distribution of values of time, and values of statistical life, over participants to a stated choice experiment, that does not require the researcher to make an a priori assumption on the type of distribution, as is required for example for mixed logit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376457
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Back to Edgeworth? : estimating the value of time using hedonic experiences
Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023
Following early economist Francis Y. Edgeworth's proposal to measure people's hedonic experiences as they go about their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that over eight years randomly asked a panel of 30, 936 UK residents (N = 2, 235, 733) about their momentary feelings and activities to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311979
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Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the Value of Time Using Hedonic Experiences
Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023
Following early economist Francis Y. Edgeworth's proposal to measure people's hedonic experiences as they go about their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that over eight years randomly asked a panel of 30, 936 UK residents (N = 2, 235, 733) about their momentary feelings and activities to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346670
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Pricing lives for corporate and governmental risk decisions
Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 6 (2015) 2, pp. 227-246
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332960
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Wasted! Resource recovery and waste management in Cuba
Ahlheim, Michael; Becker, Maike; Allegue Losada, Yeniley; … - 2018
The collection of solid waste and the recovery of recyclable material from waste belong to the many challenges Cuba has been facing over the past years. In this paper, we give a short account of the actual waste situation and analyze the causes of the obvious deficiencies of the waste sector. We...
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Is transport safety more valuable in the air?
Carlsson, Frederik (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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