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Decentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector. However, researchers and policy makers tend to ignore a key question: what do forest farmers really want from reform…
21 October 2011 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaWe conducted a survey in the Guangdong province in China to measure happiness among preadolescents and their parents. The objective of this study was to investigate what explains preadolescents’…
31 May 2011 | Discussion Paper | China, SwedenThe ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing…
30 May 2011 | Discussion Paper | SwedenUnique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay…
2 May 2011 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenThis paper uses a choice experiment to study citizens' preferences for effort-sharing rules for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. For a given global cost and level of emission reduction, we study the…
2 May 2011 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenWe investigate whether Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator recommendations regarding improvements in environmental quality differ from citizen preferences. This is done by…
20 December 2010 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenUsing a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked…
24 October 2011 | Discussion Paper | China, SwedenHypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how they…
14 February 2011 | EfD Discussion Paper | China, SwedenAlthough in-situ conservation is increasingly considered an efficient way of conserving plant genetic resources, little is known about the incentives and constraints that govern conservation decisions…
24 October 2010 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenWe test the hypothesis that people conform to certain social norms, i.e. that some individuals may be willing to pay a higher price premium for green products the more widespread green consumerism is…
23 October 2010 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden