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Toward a new methodology for estimating the marginal social rate of return to public investments in higher education

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Lewandrowski, Jan

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The United States invests tens of billions of dollars in higher education each year. This had led many researchers to estimate the marginal and average rates of return to these expenditures. Past works, however, have been partial in scope. That is, they have counted only the benefits of higher education...

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Exact welfare measurement: theory and application to recreation economics

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Niklitschek, Mario E.

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Although the limitations of consumer surplus have become widely known, there exists a lack of studies which present in a coherent framework recent developments in estimating Hicksian welfare measures. This study attempts to fill partially this gap by analyzing some theoretical and empirical aspects in the estimation of exact welfare...

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Measuring benefits of outdoor recreation services : an application of the household production function approach to the Oregon steelhead sport fishery

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Strong, Elizabeth J.

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This study provides an empirical test of the Bockstael-McConnell (1980) household production function (HPF) framework for evaluating wildlife recreation. This is perhaps the first study in which both taste and technology parameters have been estimated with a theoretical model specification. The results suggest that for steelhead sport fishing in Oregon,...

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Masters Thesis

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Redacted for Privacy Abstract Approved: Darrel L. Hueth Bruce A. Weber This study provides an empirical

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Toward a new methodology for estimating the marginal social rate of return to public investments in higher education

Exact welfare measurement: theory and application to recreation economics

Measuring benefits of outdoor recreation services : an application of the household production function approach to the Oregon steelhead sport fishery

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