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George S. Tolley
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 67
Citations - 1440
George S. Tolley is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 67 publications receiving 1396 citations. Previous affiliations of George S. Tolley include North Carolina State University.
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Valuing health for policy : an economic approach
TL;DR: Tolley et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a framework for valuing health risks and proposed a Contingent Valuation Approaches to Serious Illness (CVA) approach to serious illness.
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Valuing Changes in Health Risks: A Comparison of Alternative Measures
TL;DR: A model of health investment under uncertainty which yields a general expression for values of changes in risks to human health and the relationship between the willingness to pay for risk changes and the consumer surpluses associated with health changes which occur with certainty is derived.
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Plant Level Productivity, Efficiency, and Environmental Performance of the Container Glass Industry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a methodology and empirical results based on the Malmquist productivity index for measuring productivity while treating pollution as an undesirable output and show that technical change has contributed to productivity and environmental performance growth in the container glass industry, an energy and pollution intensivesector.
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The welfare economics of city bigness
TL;DR: This article showed that negative technological externalities, such as pollution and congestion, tend to make big cities too big, because marginal is greater than average externality, and internalizing these externalities would be likely to make a city larger if the externalities emanate from production of nontraded goods, but might make the city smaller if the externity emanates from export production.
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The Foreign Dependence Question
George S. Tolley,John D. Wilman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an optimal tariff which is proportional to foreign dependence, is inversely proportional to elasticity of external embargo loss, varies directly with embargo probability, and depends more complexly on other parameters.