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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…
1 March 2005 | Peer Reviewed | Central America, SwedenWe investigate the effectiveness of different smoking policies on smokers’ expectations to quit smoking using a choice experiment on a sample of smokers identified within the World Health Organization…
1 March 2005 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenThis 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…
6 May 2004 | Discussion Paper | SwedenUsing a contingent valuation survey, people’s willingness to pay for a given risk reduction is found to be much larger, consistently more than two times as large, when traveling by air compared to by…
1 March 2004 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenSocial inequality aversion is measured through a veil-of-ignorance experiment with Indian students. The median relative risk aversion is found to be quite high, about 3, and independent caste. Co…
20 October 2003 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenThe main objective of thus study is to contribute to the design of policies dealing with the problems of congestion and air pollution in the urban context of a typical developing country. In this…
1 October 2003 | Peer Reviewed | Central America, SwedenThis thesis consists of five papers dealing with fairly heterogeneous issues, based on the problems or topics analyzed, but also based on the methodologies used to approach them. The overriding…
7 December 2002 | Thesis PHD | Central America, SwedenThe private demand for a hypothetical vaccine that would provide lifetime protection against HIV/AIDS to an uninfected adult was measured in Guadalajara, Mexico, using the concept of willingness to…
27 August 2002 | Peer Reviewed |This article estimates the impact of completed higher education on economic prosperity across Indian districts. To address the endogeneity of higher education, we use the location of Catholic…
2 April 2019 | Peer Reviewed | IndiaDespite the Solid Waste Management Rules (SWM), 2016 stating that waste generators should segregate their waste before it is collected; most households in Delhi continue to be non-compliant. We…
2 April 2019 | Peer Reviewed | India