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THE INDIVIDUAL WELFARE COSTS OF STAY-AT-HOME POLICIES
(2020-06)
This paper reports the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate the private welfare costs of stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is conducted on a large and representative sample of the ...
Does age matter for the value of life? - Evidence from a choice experiment in rural Bangladesh
(2009-10-19)
Using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh, this paper investigates people’s preferences regarding relative values of lives when it comes to different ages of the individuals being saved. By assuming that an ...
Social Dilemmas: The Role of Incentives, Norms and Institutions
(2008-02-14)
The subject of this dissertation is social dilemmas. In a social dilemma situation, there is a clear incentive not to cooperate. However, if nobody cooperates, then everybody is worse off than if they had cooperated. The ...
Do Microloan Officers Want to Lend to the Less Advantaged? Evidence from a Choice Experiment.
(2011-02)
The mission of microfinance is generally perceived as compensation for the failure of the mainstream financial institutions to deliver access to finance to the poor. Microloan officers have significant influence on microloans ...
Difference in Preferences or in Preference Orderings? Comparing Choices of Environmental Bureaucrats, Recreational Anglers, and the Public
(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 ...
Cost of Power Outages for Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference Study
(2018-05)
Having a reliable supply of electricity is essential for the operation of any firm. In most developing countries, however, electricity supply is highly unreliable. In this study, we estimate the cost of power outages for ...
Divergence in Stakeholders’ Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden
(2015-03)
A great deal of biodiversity can be found in private forests, and protecting it requires taking
into consideration the preferences of key stakeholders. In this study, we examine and compare the valuation of forest attributes ...
Self-Image and Valuation of Moral Goods: Stated versus Real Willingness to Pay
(2011-01)
Hypothetical bias in stated-preference methods appears sometimes to be very large, and other times non-existent. This is here largely explained by a model where people derive utility from a positive self-image associated ...
Water Demand and Financing in Rwanda: An Empirical Analysis
(2013-08-23)
Abstracts
Paper 1: Water demand by unconnected households in urban districts of Rwanda
In this paper, we analyse water demand by households in urban districts in Rwanda who currently lack a piped connection into their ...
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 ...