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Maureen L. Cropper
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 180
Citations - 18145
Maureen L. Cropper is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Willingness to pay. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 173 publications receiving 15988 citations. Previous affiliations of Maureen L. Cropper include University of California, Riverside & World Bank.
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Declining discount rates
TL;DR: In this article, the United States government should replace its current discounting practices with a declining discount rate schedule, as the United Kingdom and France have done, or continue to discount the future at a constant exponential rate.
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Valuing product attributes using single market data: a comparison of hedonic and discrete choice approaches
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the performance of the multinomial logit and hedonic models in mating consumer preferences for product attributes, and find that the logit model outperforms the he-donic model in valuing non-marginal attribute changes.
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Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the costs and emissions reductions of a program that requires people to buy permits to drive on high ozone days, and estimate the demand function for permits based on a survey of 1,300 households in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
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How Should Benefits and Costs Be Discounted in an Intergenerational Context? The Views of an Expert Panel
Kenneth J. Arrow,Maureen L. Cropper,Maureen L. Cropper,Christian Gollier,Christian Gollier,Ben Groom,Richard G. Newell,Richard G. Newell,Richard G. Newell,William D. Nordhaus,William D. Nordhaus,William D. Nordhaus,Robert S. Pindyck,Robert S. Pindyck,William A. Pizer,Paul R. Portney,Thomas Sterner,Richard S.J. Tol,Richard S.J. Tol,Martin L. Weitzman +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the views of the panel on three topics: the use of the Ramsey formula as an organizing principle for determining discount rates over long horizons, whether the discount rate should decline over time, and how intra-and intergenerational discounting practices can be made compatible.
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Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges
TL;DR: In recent years, the number, scope, and quality of valuation studies have increased dramatically as mentioned in this paper and revealed-preference studies of wage compensation for occupational risks, on which analysts have primarily relied, have benefited from improved data and statistical methods.