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Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so … cases the public goods provided by biodiversity conservation can be bundled with private goods and their value to consumers …
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Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so … cases the public goods provided by biodiversity conservation can be bundled with private goods and their value to consumers …
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I review cases in which developers have chosen to conserve local environmental amenities as part of a profit-oriented strategy. The proximity of these amenities adds more to the value of the property than could have been gained by destroying them and building more residences. I show that this is...
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Respondents of contingent valuation surveys may place a null value on the public good, for reasons that differ from a genuine indifference to the good, but that can be interpreted as a "protest": either against the interview, or the public management, or both. A good survey design can...
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We report on a discrete-choice CV study conducted in Germany to value the WTP for biodiversity protection in less … developed countries. To systematically investigate survey realism and subjective threat assessment from the loss of biodiversity … described in the scenario the study includes questions to uncover the constructs of Protection Motivation Theory, which is …
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conformity with theory and empirical expectations is higher for the more homogenous dataset of contingent valuation of species …
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Attempts to measure the capitalization of local taxes into property prices, starting with Oates (1969), have suffered from a lack of local public service controls. We revisit this vast literature with a novel dataset of 947 time-varying local characteristic and public service controls for all...
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To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
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