Measurement in Public Choice

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Estimating Willingness to Pay: Why and How?....Pages 1-12
Hedonic Prices, Property Values and Measuring Environmental Benefits: A Survey of the Issues....Pages 13-32
Estimates of Households Preferences for Environmental Quality and Other Housing Characteristics From a System of Demand Equations....Pages 33-46
Observing Preferences for Educational Quality: The Weak Complementarity Approach....Pages 47-56
An Experimental Comparison of Three Public Good Decision Mechanisms....Pages 57-74
When Does Majority Rule Supply Public Goods Efficiently?....Pages 75-85
On the Difficulty of Attaining Distributional Goals With Imperfect Information About Consumers....Pages 86-96
Professed Inequality Aversion and Its Error Component....Pages 97-102
Optimization and Quantitative Assessment of Child Allowances....Pages 103-122
Distributional Objectives Should Affect Taxes But Not Program Choice or Design....Pages 123-143
Issues in the Measurement of Poverty....Pages 144-166
Politometrics of Government Behavior in A Democracy....Pages 167-181
Is There an Electional Cycle? A Comparative Study of National Accounts....Pages 182-201
The Effect of Unemployment, Inflation and Real Income Growth on Government Popularity in Sweden....Pages 202-212