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Farm Animal Welfare - testing for market failure
(2003)
Our increasingly heterogeneous food is at least partly due to concerns over conventional production of farm
livestock. Some of these new products have been demand driven while others are a result of politically
decided ...
Are people inequality averse or just risk averse?
(2001)
Individuals' preferences for risk and inequality are measured through experimental choices between hypothetical societies and lotteries. The median relative risk aversion, which is often seen to reflect social inequality ...
Doing good with other people’s money: A charitable giving experiment with students in environmental sciences and economics
(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, ...
Does it Matter When a Power Outage Occurs? - A Choice Experiment Study on the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Power Outages
(2009-03-17)
Using a choice experiment survey, the marginal willingness to pay (WTP) among Swedish households for
reductions in power outages is estimated. The results from the random parameter logit estimation indicate
that the ...
Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of elephants
(2009-11-19)
If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a burden, then they cannot be
trusted to be its stewards. To assess their valuation of it, a CVM study was conducted for one
CAMPFIRE district in Zimbabwe. ...
Do you do what you say or do you do what you say others do?
(2008-06-12)
We design a donations vs. own money choice experiment comparing three different
treatments. In two of the treatments the pay-offs are hypothetical. In the first of these, a short
cheap talk script was used, and subjects ...
Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from China
(2019-06)
Experimental evidence from both the lab and the field shows that women on average have a lower propensity to enter a competitive environment. In this paper, we investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a ...
Social preferences are stable over long periods of time
(2012-04)
We measure people’s prosocial behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor time
contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, and in terms of voluntary money
contributions in a public good game, using the ...
It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix: a study of concern for relative standing in rural China
(2008-05-22)
This paper examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We
use a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about
their relative income and find that the ...
Value of statistical life and cause of accident: A choice experiment
(2008-12-09)
The purpose of this study is to compare value of statistical life (VSL) estimates for
traffic, drowning and fire accidents. Using a choice experiment in a mail survey of
5000 Swedish respondents we estimated the willingness ...