The goal of environmental policy is to protect the well-being of humans and the ecosystems vital to human existence. Because benefit-cost analyses are now required at the federal level, and increasingly at the state level, much attention has been paid to the development of practical, credible

In this article, we estimate willingness to pay for curbside recycling. Using a unique data set, we also test for and detect significant hypothetical bias using stated- and revealed-preference data. A short-scripted “cheap-talk ” statement is used to mitigate the bias and provide more efficient

We present a framework for computing and evaluating linear projections of macro variables conditional on hypothetical paths of monetary policy. A modest policy intervention is a change in policy that does not significantly shift agents ’ beliefs about policy regime and does not generate

Objective. The objective of this study was to compare the ef-fects of written and computerized decision support aids (DSAs) based on U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Re-search depression guidelines. Methods. Fifty-six internal medicine residents were randomized to evaluate clinical sce

The so-called coalition enforcement hypothesis sees humans as self-domesticated animals engaged in the continuous activity of building morality, incorporating at the same time punishment policies. Its main intellectual value stresses the role in human and animal groups of more or less stable stages

information was gathered from other sources resulting in the identification of hypothetical relationships between urban form and travel behavior on the basis of theory, past research findings, and current policies. In Phase II the project data base was developed to test these hypothetical relationships

We construct linear projections of macro variables conditional on hypothetical paths of monetary policy, using as an example an identified VAR model. Hypothetical policies are restricted to ones where both the policy intervention and its impacts are consistent with history-- otherwise the linear

sulfur dioxide emissions permits • called "allowances " • to electric utilities. We examine the political economy of this allocation. No Senate or House votes were ever taken on allowance allocations, but hypothetical votes suggest that the actual allocation would have beaten plausible

The lack of robust evidence showing that hypothetical behavior directly maps into real actions remains a major concern for proponents of stated preference nonmarket valuation techniques. This article explores a new statistical approach to link actual and hypothetical statements. Using willingness

Abstract. In this paper we propose a logic programming language which supports hypothetical updates together with integrity constraints. The language allows sequences of updates by sets of atoms and it makes use of a revision mechanism to restore consistency when an update violates some integrity