In this paper, we address the often contentious debate over state and local recycling policy by carefully estimating the social net benefit of curbside recycling. Benefits are estimated using household survey data from over 4,000 households across 40 western U.S. cities. We calibrate household willingness-to-pay for hypothetical bias using an innovative experimental design that contrasts stated...

This paper estimates the demand for nature based tourist visits to Zambia and the willingness of international tourists to pay to visit Zambia using a single site individual travel cost model. The model estimated is corrected for both truncation of the dependent variable and endogenous stratification that arises due to on-site sampling. We find a negative binomial specification provides stable ...

The economic geography of the United States’ energy landscape changed rapidly with domestic expansion of the natural gas sector. Recent work with smooth transition parameter models is extended to an establishment location model estimated using Poisson regression to test whether expansion of this sector, as evidenced by firm location decisions from 2005 to 2010, is characterized by different gro...

Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being – Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling fo...

This paper presents empirical evidence on firms’ decisions to cooperate in R&D and the extent to which government sponsored R&D programs increase cooperation. Using a sample of firms from the Spanish innovation survey we jointly estimate the determinants of firm participation in R&D programs and of choice of cooperation partners. We find that (i) firms participating in national and European pro...

Regression discontinuity (RD) models are commonly used to nonparametrically identify and estimate a local average treatment e ect. Dong and Lewbel (2015) show how a derivative of this e ect, called TED (Treatment E ect Derivative) can be estimated. We argue here that TED should be employed in most RD applications, as a way to assess the stability and hence external validity of RD estimates. Clo...

Network formation among individuals constitutes an important part of many OR processes, but relatively little is known about how individuals make their linking decisions in networks. This article provides an investigation of heuristic effects in individual linking decisions for network formation in an incentivized lab-experimental setting. Our mixed logit analysis demonstrates that the inherent...

We explore the determinants of usage of six different types of health care services, using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data, years 1996-2000. We apply a number of models for univariate count data, including semiparametric, semi-nonparametric and finite mixture models. We find that the complexity of the model that is required to fit the data well depends upon the way in which the data i...

A group of homologous 2,4-diketones with chain lengths from C13 to C25, derived from fatty acids, is present in human and mammalian tissues and urine. The presence of this lipid class, members of which possess marked chelating properties, adequately accounts for the well-documented antiallergic activity of tissue and urine extracts on isolated smooth muscle preparations and in guinea pigs in vi...