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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-ix

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Estimating Willingness to Pay for Public Goods
1. Estimating Willingness to Pay: Why and How?
  
  Peter Bohm
  
  Pages 1-12
2. Hedonic Prices, Property Values and Measuring Environmental Benefits: A Survey of the Issues
  
  A. M. Freeman III
  
  Pages 13-32
3. Estimates of Households Preferences for Environmental Quality and Other Housing Characteristics From a System of Demand Equations
  
  Melville L. McMillan
  
  Pages 33-46
4. Observing Preferences for Educational Quality: The Weak Complementarity Approach
  
  Gregory G. Hildebrandt, Timothy D. Tregarthen
  
  Pages 47-56
Public Good Decision Mechanisms
1. An Experimental Comparison of Three Public Good Decision Mechanisms
  
  Vernon L. Smith
  
  Pages 57-74
2. When Does Majority Rule Supply Public Goods Efficiently?
  
  Ted C. Bergstrom
  
  Pages 75-85
3. On the Difficulty of Attaining Distributional Goals With Imperfect Information About Consumers
  
  Jean-Jacques Laffont, Eric Maskin
  
  Pages 86-96
Inequalities and Income Distribution
1. Professed Inequality Aversion and Its Error Component
  
  Louis Gevers, Herbert Glejser, Jean Rouyer
  
  Pages 97-102
2. Optimization and Quantitative Assessment of Child Allowances
  
  Vidar Christiansen
  
  Pages 103-122
3. Distributional Objectives Should Affect Taxes But Not Program Choice or Design
  
  Aanund Hylland, Richard Zeckhauser
  
  Pages 123-143
4. Issues in the Measurement of Poverty
  
  Amartya Sen
  
  Pages 144-166
Econometric Models of Government Behavior
1. Politometrics of Government Behavior in A Democracy
  
  Bruno S. Frey
  
  Pages 167-181
2. Is There an Electional Cycle? A Comparative Study of National Accounts
  
  Martin Paldam
  
  Pages 182-201
3. The Effect of Unemployment, Inflation and Real Income Growth on Government Popularity in Sweden
  
  Lars Jonung, Eskil Wadensjö
  
  Pages 202-212

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University of Oslo, Norway

Steinar Strøm

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Book Title: Measurement in Public Choice
Editors: Steinar Strøm
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05090-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1981
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-05092-5Published: 01 January 1981
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-05090-1Published: 18 June 1981
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 212
Topics: Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

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Estimating Willingness to Pay for Public Goods

Public Good Decision Mechanisms

Inequalities and Income Distribution

Econometric Models of Government Behavior

Editors and Affiliations

University of Oslo, Norway

Bibliographic Information

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