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How Much Do We Care About Absolute Versus Relative Income and Consumption?
(2001)
We find, using survey-experimental methods, that most individuals are concerned with
both relative income and relative consumption of particular goods. The degree of
concern varies in the expected direction depending on ...
Social Norms and Information Diffusion in Water-saving Programs:Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Colombia
(2016-04)
This paper investigates direct and spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at encouraging residential water savings in Colombia. The campaign was organized as a
randomized field experiment, consisting of ...
Does context matter more for hypothetical than for actual contributions? Evidence from a natural field experiment
(2007-04-19)
We investigate the importance of the social context for people’s voluntary contributions to a national park
in Costa Rica, using a natural field experiment. Some subjects make actual contributions while others
state their ...
Reducing the gap between stated and real behavior in transportation studies: The use of an oath script
(2017-09)
We investigate whether taking an oath in a survey situation affects respondent behavior in choice experiments with a focus on travel time, comfort, and cost. We conduct two studies in Beijing: one with car commuters and ...
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
(2010-03-29)
By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing
rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not
rank the rule favoring their own ...
Environmental Taxation in Airline Markets
(2000)
Over the last two decades many airline markets have been deregulated, resulting in increased competition and use of different types of networks. At the same time there has been an intense discussion on environmental taxation ...
Willingness to Pay among Swedish Households to Avoid Power Outages - A Random Parameter Tobit Model Approach
(2009-03-17)
Using a contingent valuation survey, we elicit Swedish households’ willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid
power outages. In the study respondents are asked to state their WTP for avoiding nine different types of
outages. We ...
Should We Trust Hypothetical Referenda? Test and Identification Problems
(2006)
In a paper published in the Journal of Political Economy, Cummings et al. experimentally compare hypothetical and real-money referenda. They reject the incentive compatibility hypothesis of hypothetical referenda. However, ...
Assessing management options for weed control with demanders and non-demanders in a choice experiment
(2006)
The yellow floating heart is a water weed causing nuisance problems in Swedish watercourses. An economic analysis of this is required where various management options are considered. The benefits of a management program ...
Forestland Reform in China: What do the Farmers Want? A Choice Experiment on Farmers’ Property Rights Preferences
(2009-06-30)
Various decentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector.
However, a key question often ignored by researchers and policy makers is what farmers
really want from reform. This paper ...