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Subjective well-being among preadolescents - Evidence from urban China
(2011-05)
We examine what factors are correlated with subjective well-being among Chinese preadolescents. In particular, we investigate whether preadolescents’ subjective well-being is correlated with their parents’ subjective ...
Airport Marginal Cost Pricing: Discussion and an Application to Swedish Airports
(2002)
We derive an optimal airport-pricing model, both with and without a constraint on the revenues, that
includes all relevant external marginal costs,. Given the results of the model we discuss the implications
on the profit ...
The effect of risk, ambiguity, and coordination on farmers’ adaptation to climate change: A framed field experiment
(2009-09-21)
The risk of loses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers ...
The first time is the hardest: A test of ordering effects in choice experiments
(2010-10)
This paper addresses the issue of ordering effects in choice experiments, and in particular how learning processes potentially affect respondents’ stated preferences in a sequence of choice sets. In a case study concerning ...
Do Hypothetical and Actual Willingness to Pay Differ in Choice Experiments? - Application to the Valuation of the Environment
(1999)
In this paper we test the validity of choice experiments with donations for environmental projects. In particular, we test whether or not willingness to pay for projects differs between a hypothetical and an actual choice ...
Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A field experiment on conditional cooperation and default contributions
(2011-05)
The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. This paper ...
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth - A Multiple Country Test of an Oath Script
(2010-11)
Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The
general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how
they actually behave. In ...
Preferences With and Without Prices - does the price attribute affect behavior in stated preference surveys?
(2004)
The experimental as well as the nonmarket valuation literature include several examples of how an introduced price can affect behavior in otherwise not expected ways. It has become standard to include a price vector as an ...
Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation
(2001)
This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to
valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent
valuation method, are ...