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elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce school bullying. Non-parametric and parametric approaches indicate a mean …The number of programs used to reduce bullying in schools is increasing, but often with a lack of understanding of the … marginal WTP of 5.95–8.48 Swedish kronor (€0.66–0.95) for each reduced victim of bullying. The aggregate societal WTP for each …
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Being a victim of school bullying is related to several severe direct and indirect negative social and health … to reduce school bullying. Using both non-parametric and parametric approaches the results indicate a (societal … consequences. There are an increasing number of antibullying programs used in schools in order to prevent and reduce school …
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Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds … that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … find evidence of a spike in suicide propensity in the first two days following the end of school holidays. The results are …
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their experience of bullying in the school environment. The data covers 40 schools containing 159 classes. We run probit …In this paper we estimate the effect of class-size on the prevalence of physical and verbal bullying in Swedish schools …. We use self-reported individual level data from approx. 3 100 Swedish adolescents in the 9th grade (aged 15-16) regarding …
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Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds … that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … find evidence of a spike in suicide propensity in the first two days following the end of school holidays. The results are …
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In this study we report an attempt to measure the value adult Swedes impute to an increased survival probability at high ages. A rating scale between the worst possible quality of life (=3D1) and the best possible quality of life (=3D10) is used to indicate the quality of life a person expects...
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This article investigates how the Swedish population values a reduction in the number of suicides in relation to other life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample of 1000 Swedish members of the web panel Userneeds to...
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The paper investigates the validity of individuals' perceptions of heart disease risks, and examines how information and risk perceptions affect marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) to reduce risk, using data from a stated preference survey. Results indicate that risk perceptions individuals held...
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Background: Methods have been developed to try and understand the process of preference formation as a means of validating the contingent valuation method. Such methods include asking individuals to think out loud, or discussing the contingent valuation (CV) scenario as a group: group...
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In this study we report an attempt to measure the WTP of car owners for a reduction of the probability of being killed in a traffic accident. One group of respondents is offered a safety device to be installed in their car, while another group is offered a public safety program (improved road...
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