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Do You Enjoy Having More Than Others? Survey Evidence of Positional Goods
(2003)
Although conventional economic theory proposes that only the absolute levels of
income and consumption matter for people’s utility, there is much evidence that relative
concerns are often important. This paper uses a ...
Measuring hypotheticalgrandparents preferences for quality and relative standings
(2001)
Individuals' aversion to risk and inequality, and their concern for relative standing, are measured through experimental choices between hypothetical societies. It is found that on average individuals are both fairly ...
Evaluating the welfare effects of improved water quality using the choice experiment method
(2004)
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of improved health status through increased
water quality using a choice experiment. The survey was administered to a random
sample of households in metropolitan Cairo, Egypt. We ...
Food labels: how consumers value moral, environmental, and health aspects of meat consumption
(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 ...
Intra-household decisions making on intertemporal choices: An experimental study in rural China
(2012-09)
In this paper, we conduct a high stake experiment in rural China to investigate the determinants of individual and joint decisions regarding intertemporal choices, and estimate the relative influence of spouses on the joint ...
Is Transport Safety More Valuable in the Air?
(2002)
Using a contingent valuation survey, people’s willingness to pay for a given risk reduction is found to be
much larger when traveling by air compared to by taxi. Follow-up questions revealed that an important
reason for ...
Nudging as an Environmental Policy Instrument
(2019-04)
We discuss the use of green nudges – nudges intended to reduce negative externalities – as an environmental policy instrument. A review of empirical studies reveals that green nudges can have a sizeable impact on behavior ...
Are Agricultural Extension Packages What Ethiopian Farmers Want? A Stated Preference Analysis
(2005)
There is an evident dichotomy in many rural development policies in the world between extension driven adoption of modern inputs and community driven local public goods. However, the target populations of these policies ...
Consumer willingness to pay for farm animal welfare - transportation of farm animals to slaughter versus the use of mobile abattoirs
(2004)
This study employed a choice experiment (CE) to ascertain consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for non-market food product quality attributes. Data were obtained from a large mail survey and estimated with a ...
Measuring Trust in Institutions
(2018-05)
In empirical studies, survey questions are typically used to measure trust; trust games are also used to measure interpersonal trust. In this paper, we measure trust in different institutions by using both trust games and ...