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Journal article

Journal of Public Economics:

Estimating students' valuation for college experiences

Quantifying the consumption value of college - the utility students derive from in-person instruction and on-campus social activities - has been challenging. We leverage the COVID-19 shock to elicit students' intended li...Read more...

Blog

What Works Centre for Wellbeing:

Using people's feelings to value time

This short summary introduces the main idea in Christian Krekel and George MacKerron's paper proposing an alternative method to estimate the value of time (VOT): experiential valuation based on experience-sampling....Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the value of time using hedonic experiences

Following early economist Francis Y. Edgeworth's proposal to measure people's hedonic experiences as they go about their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that surveyed a panel of 30; 928 individuals UK-wide over seve...Read more...