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Autor:
David Hales, Mary Riddel
Publikováno v:
Risk Analysis. 38:2161-2177
Experimental and survey research spanning the last two decades concludes that people who are more risk tolerant are more likely to engage in risky health activities such as smoking and heavy alcohol consumption, and are more likely to be obese. Subje
Autor:
David Hales, Mary Riddel
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Insurance. 85:749-785
We test for the influence of optimism on selection in a hypothetical cancer-insurance market using a survey of 474 subjects. We elicit perceptions of baseline cancer risk and control efficacy and combine these with subject-specific cancer risks predi
Publikováno v:
Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. 5:143-162
Subjective probabilities often better explain behaviours than science-based risks. Incorporating them into a behavioural model has important ramifications for environmental and health policy, but if these risks are measured with error or endogenous,
Autor:
Mary Riddel
Publikováno v:
Southern Economic Journal. 80:752-771
This article takes a fresh look at how public uncertainty influences willingness to pay (WTP) for climate-change mitigation programs. I elicit subjective distribution functions over future global mean temperatures and WTP for mitigation. I find, not
Autor:
Mary Riddel
Publikováno v:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 45:135-157
This paper investigates whether preferences over environmental risks are best modeled using probability-weighted utility functions or can be reasonably approximated by expected utility (EU) or subjective EU models as is typically assumed. I elicit ri
Autor:
Mary Riddel
Publikováno v:
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 61:341-354
Most welfare models of environmental or mortality risk reductions assume that risks are exogenously determined and known with certainty. However, a growing body of research suggests that uncertainty about risks can affect choices over risky prospects
Autor:
Mary Riddel
Publikováno v:
Land Economics. 87:126-144
This paper asks whether speculative house-price pressure in an economic center can spill into related housing markets. In other words, are bubbles contagious? I develop a theoretical model that allows for speculative price appreciation to spread from
Publikováno v:
Risk Analysis. 30:1550-1562
Researchers have long recognized that subjective perceptions of risk are better predictors of choices over risky outcomes than science-based or experts’ assessments of risk. More recent work suggests that uncertainty about risks also plays a role i
Autor:
Mary Riddel, Aaron Kearsley
Publikováno v:
Ecological Economics. 69:905-919
Empirical research on the relationship between economic growth and its impact on the environment often tests the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), a hypothesis that rising national output leads to increases in pollution emissions until an economy re
Autor:
David C. Bell, Samuel D. Brody, Justin Baker, Richard T. Woodward, W. Douglass Shaw, William S. Neilson, Mary Riddel
Publikováno v:
Natural Hazards Review. 10:102-112
Using stated choice survey data we report on subjects’ perceptions of the risks of hurricanes and intended relocation decisions when faced with such risks. All of the subjects were displaced by either Hurricane Katrina or Rita, in New Orleans and o