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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"stated preferences"”.
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Analisi sperimentale del comportamento turistico attraverso revealed e stated preferences: il caso delle Residenze Sabaude
La valorizzazione territoriale di un bene culturale e ambientale per un suo efficace tourism management è strettamente legata allo studio dei visitatori (Bollo, 2007). Da un lato è infatti connessa all’analisi delle caratteristiche anagrafiche in vista della creazione di nuove offerte turistiche, …
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Essays on Fertility and Fertility Preferences in India
… individual levels, why contemporary fertility preferences diverge from actual fertility. I use three waves of cross-sectional survey data from the National Family Health Surveys from India (also known as the Indian Demographic and Health Surveys), fielded in 1992-3, 1998-9 and 2005-6 to …
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Aportaciones al análisis y la evaluación económica de los servicios públicos en la Unión Europea desde la perspectiva de los ciudadanos como consumidores
… through contrasting their revealed and stated preferences for three large European countries: Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The results reflect the heterogeneity of citizens as consumers, linked to their socio-economic conditions. On this basis, it can be observed how the reforms …
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Decision making process and factors routing
… information consulted in making these decisions. Stated Preferences (SP) experiments were conducted, where drivers' choice behaviour between two hypothetical scenarios were observed and modeled. 252 drivers completed the survey, yielding 1121 valid SP observations. This data was used to study the …
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Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE public investments: impact on education, adaptation and preferences
… further investigates determinants of programme stated preferences and behaviour thereof in communal areas of Zimbabwe, using the case of Dande communal area in Mbire district. Since its inception in the late 1980s, there has been debate over the adequacy of the implementation of the CAMPFIRE …
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Two Issues in Premise Plumbing: Contamination Intrusion at Service Line and Choosing Alternative Plumbing Material
… US Community to observe their revealed and stated preferences. Participants' overall preference tradeoffs are reported in addition to comparing their revealed and stated preferences. Health effects, taste and odor of water turned out to be the most important factors from the survey. In real …
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Application of a land use planning decision support tool in a public participatory process for sustainable forest management
… is to explore whether stakeholders' initial stated preferences change and whether trade-offs are made between various forest values upon observation of a long-term forecast of these values using a DST. Representatives from various stakeholder groups in the area were assembled for individual …
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Travel based multitasking on the Mumbai Local and Metro : measurement, classification and variation
… Railway was used to analyze revealed and stated preferences of TBM activities. Results of choice models were further deconstructed with insights from unstructured interviews. Age and willingness to pay per minute were the strongest predictors of TBM activities. Riders younger than 34 years …
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A Perceptual Study of Wetlands: Implications for Wetland Restoration in the Urban Area in Malaysia
… managers. This dissertation analyzes people's preferences for wetlands in comparison to those of landscape architects. It specifically studies the conflict about the wetland restoration program in the Malaysia's Kelana Jaya Municipal Park. This dissertation is based on data obtained from a …
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Modeling preferences for innovative modes and services : a case study in Lisbon
… systems. In this study, we evaluate the preferences for some new modes and services (one-way car rental, shared taxi, express minibus, school bus service for park and ride, and congestion pricing) in the context of Lisbon, Portugal using stated preferences (SP) techniques. The survey …
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Minoritarian Activism – Judicial Politics in the European Union
… free to influence the EU according to its own preferences, or as an obedient servant of EU member state governments? In this dissertation, Olof Larsson argues that neither description fits the CJEU. Rather, the CJEU is dependent upon the support of at least a minority of EU member states in …
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Valuing green infrastructure improvements at Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland
… study was commissioned to identify the preferences of the current and potential users of the outdoor grounds in terms of green infrastructure improvements that would address their heterogeneous needs. Stated preference and revealed preference methods were employed to estimate the …
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Challenging the status quo: exploring the use of strategies from behavioral economics to shape children's menus in restaurants
… objectives: 1a) To examine parent derived and stated preferences for selected attributes of children's restaurant menus, which included behavioral economic strategies, using a conjoint design and, 1b) to segment the participants by derived menu attribute preference to identify patterns in …
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Social Influences on Children's Option Valuations
… specifically, information pertaining to others' preferences - into their object valuations? Valuation is an important component of economic exchange, and is key to assessing how resources are fairly distributed or favors reciprocated. As humans often need to make critical decisions with limited …
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Social norms, markets and land use in a developing country context
… in temperature and rainfall relate to their stated preferences for specific SFM practices. I find that farmers’ lack of liquidity and inadequate technical knowledge about the specifics of SFM practices continue to hamper SFM adoption and that smallholder farmers’ perceptions of temperature …
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Soil fertility management and economics of soybean in Ghana
… to pay for improved varieties and demand-side preferences of soybean traders in Ghana. The study specifically tests the following research hypotheses: (1) there is heterogeneity in the adoption of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) packages for farmers who have experienced …
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Extended discrete choice models : integrated framework, flexible error structures, and latent variables
… as random parameters. - Combining revealed and stated preferences in order to draw on the advantages of both types of data, thereby reducing bias and improving efficiency of the parameter estimates. - Incorporating latent variables in order to provide a richer explanation of behavior by …