opportunity costs
The value of nothing : asymmetric attention to opportunity costs drives intertemporal decision making
... The experiments reported so far focused on relatively stylized choices between smaller, sooner and larger, later amounts of money. Similarly, almost all previous studies of the Hidden zero effect have used stylized ...
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Primary care utilisation and workers’ opportunity costs Evidence from Italy
... higher opportunity costs, have a relatively low demand for primary care services compared to the white and blue ...the costs of being absent from ...
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Opportunity costs of carbon sequestration in a forest concession in central Africa
... carbon opportunity costs, without any a priori idea about whether this influ- ence would be positive or ...environmental costs and benefits beyond timber production ...
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Direct and opportunity costs of schooling a girl child: a case study of puncha block of purulia district, West Bengal, India
... the costs, both economic and ...the costs of educating girls are likely to be higher and the benefits are more tenuous than the ...of costs for their children’s schooling, e.g., direct costs, ...
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Managing a Societies Knowledge base A look at Opportunity Costs
... the opportunity costs need to be always calculated in order for the government to understand the impact of its decisions as well as to have such reports available to the public and to students of government ...
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The value of effective public tuberculosis treatment: an analysis of opportunity costs associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Latvia
... an opportunity for health preservation well beyond the borders of ...the opportunity costs associated with the public treatment of MDR- TB patients in ...
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Opportunity Costs of Emissions Caused by Land Use Changes
... the opportunity cost of REDD+ published by the World Bank Institute and the REDD-Abacus software developed by the World Agroforestry Centre (Harja et ...the opportunity cost curve using the REDD-Abacus ...
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Evaluating basis for a targeted environmental policy: Do the opportunity costs of enhancing biodiversity differ between organic and conventional farms?
... the opportunity costs of crop diversity as measured by crop output ...the costs between farms and room for improving cost-efficiency of policy instruments targeting conservation of biodiversity in ...
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Persistent inter‐industry wage differences: rent sharing and opportunity costs
... One of the most pervasive and difficult to explain phenomena in economics is the persistence of inter-industry wage differences for measurably similar workers. Some explanations predict that most of the variation is due ...
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Access to primary care and workers’ opportunity costs Evidence from Italy
... N=86,185 Variables Dependent variable Number of GP visits Demographic characteristics Female Age yrs Married Children # Socio-economic characteristics Education yrs Employed Not employed[r] ...
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Neonicotinoids, bees and opportunity costs for conservation
... Keywords: Neonicotinoids, Neonicotinoid insecticides, EU Moratorium, IPM, Sustainable pest management, Ecosystem services, Conservation... Restrictions on the use of neonicotinoid inse[r] ...
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Evolutionary Concept, Genetic Algorithm and Exhibition Contract in Movie Industry
... and opportunity costs throughout the film’s ...high opportunity costs, which renders the fitness to be ...the opportunity cost for each situation is high, and therefore, fitness cannot ...
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Payments for ecosystem services and rural development: Landowners' preferences and potential participation in western Mexico
... correlated with lower expected participation in incentive based programs (e.g. Markowski- Lindsay et al. 2011). As in Figure 2, there are no data points for distances below 5 km that could confirm the curve specification ...
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Who has access to counseling and testing and anti-retroviral therapy in Malawi - An equity analysis
... Further integration of both CT and ART services with other health services is critical given the human resource constraints and the importance from an equity perspec- tive of spreading the benefit from the new resources ...
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Chapter 2
... Therefore, the pattern of exports and imports will be determined by the opportunity costs of production in each country—their comparative advantage.... Relative price of cloth in H[r] ...
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Definition of efficient scarcity based water pricing policies through stochastic programming
... supply costs, op- portunity costs and externalities (Rogers et ...the opportunity costs of scarce water is difficult: since water markets are usually absent or ineffective, scarcity val- ues ...
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Reinventing residual reserves in the sea: are we favouring ease of establishment over need for protection?
... Minimizing opportunity costs therefore entails the risk that MPAs and no-take zones will represent initially (and perhaps eventually) only those biodiversity features occurring in areas with little ...
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Essays on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Terai Arc landscape of Nepal
... increased opportunity costs of emissions ...increases opportunity cost per Mg of CO2e emissions reduction by 76 ...percent. Opportunity costs will significantly increase if all farming ...
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Access to malaria treatment in young children of rural Burkina Faso
... and opportunity costs will cer- tainly continue to limit early access of young children with malaria to modern health facilities in Burkina Faso, as in most of rural SSA ...
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Volume 31 - Article 46 | Pages 1365–1416
... As economic and cultural theories of fertility suggest, the institutional and normative context potentially affects the relation between education and fertility. First, the impact of a birth while enrolled in education ...
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