Browsing by Author "Kataria, Mitesh"
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Assessing management options for weed control with demanders and non-demanders in a choice experiment
Kataria, Mitesh; Carlsson, Fredrik (2006)The yellow floating heart is a water weed causing nuisance problems in Swedish watercourses. An economic analysis of this is required where various management options are considered. The benefits of a management program ... -
Confirmation: What's in the evidence?
Kataria, Mitesh (2014-05)The difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a hypothesis is proposed to explain and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the prediction of ... -
Dealing with ignored attributes in choice experiments on valuation of Sweden’s environmental quality objectives
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (2008-02-20)In this paper we use follow-up questions to investigate whether attributes have been ignored in a choice experiment on environmental goods. This information is subsequently used in the estimation of the model by restricting ... -
Difference in Preferences or in Preference Orderings? Comparing Choices of Environmental Bureaucrats, Recreational Anglers, and the Public
Eggert, Håkan; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (2016-08)Do Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bureaucrats represent the general public or are they more in line with an interest group? We study preferences for environmental policy using a choice experiment (CE) on three ... -
Do EPA administrators recommend environmental policies that citizens want?
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (2008-04-14)We investigate whether Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator preferences regarding improvements in environmental quality differ from citizen preferences. The scope and significance of the possible ... -
Do you trust me? – Go Fish! A Study on Trust and Fisheries Management
Eggert, Håkan; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (2016-10)This paper investigates trust among stakeholders in fisheries management. We asked the general public, environmental bureaucrats, and recreational and commercial fishers whether they believed various stakeholders have ... -
Doing good with other people’s money: A charitable giving experiment with students in environmental sciences and economics
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Levati, M. Vittoria (2011-01)We augment a standard dictator game to investigate how preferences for an environmental project relate to willingness to limit others’ choices. We explore this issue by distinguishing three student groups: economists, ... -
Food labels: how consumers value moral, environmental, and health aspects of meat consumption
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Nyberg, Erik; Sterner, Thomas (2020-04)Policy changes could improve health and environmental outcomes by addressing the many externalities and internalities related to food consumption. Using a stated preference approach, we investigate to what extent consumers ... -
How are you? How's it going? What's up? What's happening? Nudging people to tell us how they really are
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh (2016-03)We investigate a novel approach to reduce measurement error in subjective well-being (SWB) data. Using a between-subject design, half of the subjects are asked to promise to answer the survey questions truthfully in an ... -
How long do you think it will take? Field Evidence on Gender Differences in Time Optimism
Kataria, Mitesh (2017-02)Evidence from ten natural field studies comparing long-distance runners' incentivized predictions of race finishing time with their actual finishing time is reported. A modest but regular bias is found. Male runners are ... -
How much does it take? Willingness to switch to meat substitutes
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (University of Gothenburg, 2021-01)Meat production and consumption have several negative environmental externalities and health impacts. Using a stated preference survey, this study identifies main barriers to and drivers of switching to the following meat ... -
How Much Liberty Should We Have? Citizens versus Experts on Regulating Externalities and Internalities
Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Kataria, Mitesh (University of Gothenburg, 2024-01)Based on a tailor-made survey, we find that experts – academics and civil servants – are much more willing than citizens in Sweden to accept liberty-reducing regulations. Moreover, both citizens and experts are more ... -
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas (2010-03-29)By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not rank the rule favoring their own ... -
Kostnader av elavbrott för svenska elkunder
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Martinsson, Peter (2019-03) -
Leading by example? EU citizens’ preferences for climate leadership
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas (University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)For global problems like climate change, strong international agreements are difficult to achieve. Alternative solutions might therefore be necessary. In this paper, we study the support for climate leadership in seven ... -
Past and present outage costs – A follow-up study of households’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Martinsson, Peter (2019-10)Households’ demand for electricity continues to increase. This trend per se should indicate increased disutility from power outages. On the other hand, batteries and other back-up systems have been improved and the frequency ... -
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Qin, Ping; Chung, Susie; Sterner, Thomas (2010-05-17)Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ... -
Sexual objectification of women in media and the gender wage gap: Does exposure to objectifying pictures lower the reservation wage?
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)Using an online experiment, we investigate the influence of sexual objectification in media on economic decision making. In the experiment, subjects are asked to evaluate advertisements in women’s magazines. In the treatment ... -
Sustainable food: can food labels make consumers switch to meat substitutes?
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (2021-12)Using a stated preference survey, we investigate whether the introduction of a set of food labels affects consumers´ willingness to make costly shifts from meat products to meat substitutes. We investigate the role of food ... -
The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Qin, Ping; Sterner, Thomas; Yang, Xiaojun (2020-05)We examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed over the past decade in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate ...