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Are Commercial Fishers Risk Lovers?
(2003)
Empirical studies of fishers’ preferences have found that most fishers are risk-averse, while expected-utility theory predicts risk neutrality even for sizable stakes. We test this prediction using data from a stated choice ...
THE EFFECT OF CIGARETTE PRICES AND ANTISMOKING POLICIES ON THE AGE OF SMOKING INITIATION
(2001)
This study differs from most previous studies on smoking initiation by studying the age of
smoking onset, and not merely smoking initiation. We apply duration analysis to estimate the
determinants of the age of smoking ...
Don’t Tell Me What to Do, Tell Me Who to Follow! - Field Experiment Evidence on Voluntary Donations
(2010-06-02)
We conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. As observed before, we see visitors conforming to the ...
Anyone for Higher Speed Limits? - Self-Interested and Adaptive Political Preferences
(2003)
Swedish survey-evidence indicates that variables reflecting self-interest are important in
explaining people’s preferred speed limits, and that political preferences adapt to
technological development. Drivers of cars ...
Does it matter when a power outage occurs? — A choice experiment study on the willingness to pay to avoid power outages
(Elsevier, 2008)
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 marginal ...
The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good
(2011-01)
This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior ...
Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
(2010-08)
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on ...
Do Experience and Cheap Talk influence Willingness to Pay in an Open-Ended Contingent Valuation Survey?
(2006)
In this paper we analyze the effect of information on respondents’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages in Sweden, by employing an open-ended contingent valuation survey. Two aspects of information are tested; (i) if ...
Does disclosure crowd out cooperation?
(2010-05-18)
This paper investigates whether disclosure crowds out pro-social behavior using a public goods experiment. In a between-subject design, we investigate different degrees of disclosure. We find a small positive but insignificant ...
Past and present outage costs – A follow-up study of households’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages
(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 ...