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Stated Preferences Outperform Elicited Preferences for Predicting Compliance with COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures

Rafaï, Ismaël; Blayac, Thierry; Dubois, Dimitri; … - 2022

This paper studies the behavioral and socio-demographic determinants of compliance with prophylactic measures against COVID-19: barrier gestures, lockdown restrictions and mask wearing. The study contrasts two types of behavioral determinants: experimentally elicited preferences (risk tolerance,...

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Valuing a reduction in the risk of infertility : A large scale multi-country stated preference approach

Dussaux, Damien - 2023

chemicals management options and environmental policies in general. The present paper details a stated preference survey … applied benefits analysis for chemicals regulation. The SWACHE infertility survey was fielded in 10 countries: Australia …, Canada, Chile, Germany, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. …

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The Economic Value of Air-Pollution-Related Health Risks in China : A Contingent Valuation Study

Hammitt, James K.; Zhou, Ying - 2010

The economic value of preventing adverse health effects related to air pollution is estimated using contingent valuation in three diverse locations in China. Values are estimated for three health endpoints: cold, chronic bronchitis, and fatality. Alternative statistical models are tested to...

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Calculating the Economic Value of Non-marginal Mortality Risk Reductions

Cardoso, Diego S.; Dahis, Ricardo - 2023

Benefit-cost analyses in public health typically calculate the benefits of mortality reduction interventions by multiplying the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) and the expected decrease in fatalities. This procedure approximates the benefits of small mortality changes but is inaccurate for...

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Measuring job risks when hedonic wage models do not do the job

Ferreira, Susana; Martínez-de-Morentin, Sara; Erro … - 2024

Hedonic wage regressions show little evidence that European workers facing larger job risks and other workplace disamenities receive higher wages. On the other hand, workers in more risky or unpleasant jobs are less satisfied with their jobs, ceteris paribus. If labor markets were perfectly...

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Effect of the traffic-light system on nutrition labeling in processed food products in the Ecuadorian population

Sarasty, Oscar; Carpio, Carlos E.; Cabrera, Tania - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19

The 2012 Ecuadorian National Nutrition and Health Survey found that a high proportion of the country's population is … cross-sectional study, 1,152 Ecuadorian consumers aged 18 and older in charge of food purchases completed an online survey …

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Reference-Dependence Effects in Benefit Assessment : Beyond the WTA-WTP Dichotomy and WTA-WTP Ratios

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2015

Willingness-to-pay values and willingness-to-accept values have received considerable attention, but the role of reference-dependence effects is more diverse. Policies involving cost and risk may have reference point effects with respect to both cost and risk, leading to four potential valuation...

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Context and the VSL : Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the Czech Republic

Alberini, Anna - 2010

We report on the results of a survey based on conjoint choice experiments that was specifically designed to investigate … iii) the mode of provision of the risk reduction (public program v. private good). The survey was conducted following …

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The benefits and costs of U.S. employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates

Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022

In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...

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Assessment of the Relationship Between Measures of Disease Severity, Quality of Life, and Willingness to Pay in Asthma

Zillich, Alan J.; Blumenschein, Karen; Johannesson, Magnus - In: PharmacoEconomics 20 (2002) 4, pp. 257-265

question measured subjective disease severity. The Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form (SF-36) health survey and Asthma …

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