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Out of sight, not out of mind: The effect of access to conservation sites on the willingness to pay for protecting endangered species

2024 , Makarena Henríquez , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , Manuel Barrientos , PONCE OLIVA, ROBERTO DANIEL , Antonio Lara , Gabriela Flores-Benner , Carlos Riquelme

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Understanding the role of personal experiences and contextual variables in shaping risk reduction preferences

2023 , Manuel Barrientos , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , Constanza Rosales , Luna Bratti

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Economic valuation of Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB): Methodological challenges, policy implications, and an empirical application

2024 , José Carias , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , Manuel Barrientos , PONCE OLIVA, ROBERTO DANIEL , Stefan Gelcich

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Firewood certification programs: Key attributes and policy implications

2020 , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , Manuel Barrientos , Álvaro Castillo , Iván Herrera , PONCE OLIVA, ROBERTO DANIEL

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The implicit market price of soil erosion: An estimation using a hedonic model with spatial spillovers

2024 , Marcelo Caffera , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , Manuel Barrientos , Daniel Rodríguez Anza , Leonidas Carrasco‐Letelier

AbstractWe estimate the implicit market price of soil erosion using quarterly data of 2824 agricultural farms traded in Uruguay between 2000 and 2014. A unique feature of our estimation is that we allow for possible spatial spillovers. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant association between erosion and land values. On average, an additional loss of 1% of the original topsoil due to erosion is associated with a direct (own) decrease of .24% in the per‐hectare price of agricultural land (P‐value: .012, 95% CI: −.0042, −.0005). In 2023 dollars, this is equivalent to a decrease of USD 8.7 in the average price per hectare, or USD 1130 in the price of the average farm. In terms of tons of soil, the average value is $.24 a ton. Finally, considering the 50 km radius of our spatial model, the value of losing 1% of topsoil is $15.8 million. The value of our estimates is sensitive to our measure of erosion and our specification of the spatial‐temporal weighting matrix, but the statistical association is robust.

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Estimating the implicit discount rate for new technology adoption of wood-burning stoves

2021 , Moisés Carrasco-Garcés , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , PONCE OLIVA, ROBERTO DANIEL , Francisco Diaz Pincheira , Manuel Barrientos

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A comparison of mixed logit and latent class models to estimate market segments for seafood faced with ocean acidification

2022 , CAMPOS REQUENA, NELYDA AURORA , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , Francisco Fernández , Manuel Barrientos , Stefan Gelcich , PONCE OLIVA, ROBERTO DANIEL

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Firms adaptation to climate change through product innovation

2022 , PONCE OLIVA, ROBERTO DANIEL , HUAMÁN SALIRROSAS, MARILYN JOANA , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , Manuel Barrientos , Stefan Gelcich

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Microplastics in seafood: Consumer preferences and valuation for mitigation technologies

2024 , Manuel Barrientos , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , PONCE OLIVA, ROBERTO DANIEL , Rodolfo M. Nayga , Stefan Gelcich

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Assessing the incorporation of latent variables in the estimation of the value of a statistical life

2024 , Manuel Barrientos , VÁSQUEZ LAVÍN , FELIPE ANTONIO , PONCE OLIVA, ROBERTO DANIEL

AbstractFor many years, the economic literature has recognized the role of attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions in estimating the value of a statistical life (VSL). However, few applications have attempted to include them. This article incorporates the perceived controllability and concern about traffic and cardiorespiratory risks to estimate VSL using a hybrid choice model (HCM). The HCM allows us to include unobserved heterogeneity and improve behavioral realism explicitly. Using data from a choice experiment conducted in Santiago, Chile, we estimate a VSL of US$3.78 million for traffic risks and US$2.06 million for cardiorespiratory risks. We found that higher controllability decreases the likelihood that the respondents would be willing to pay for risk reductions in both risks. On the other hand, concern about these risks decreases the willingness to pay for traffic risk reductions but increases it for cardiorespiratory risk reductions.