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Who knows the price of water services, and does it make a difference? An explor...
Pinto, Lígia; Ramísio, Paulo J.; Valente, MarietaWater scarcity represents an increasingly worldwide concern. Policies designed to address water scarcity either focus on the water supply or consumers’ demand. This paper proposes to analyze the relevance that water price plays in regulating households’ demand and, the role it could play if set differently, to induce more sustainable water use. In particular, in Portugal, the quantity of water can represent les...
Ageing (un)equally and (un)healthily: On the health status of Portuguese people...
Correia, Isabel M.; Ferreira, Priscila; Pinto, Lígia; Valente, Marieta; Veiga, PaulaResearch on the health status and on socio-economic inequality in the health status of Portuguese adults with 50 years of age or more is scarce, but urgent, so that policy-makers can better understand the type of burdens that this ageing process will place on social welfare policies. We use data from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe Wave 6 to investigate the role of gender, income and educat...
Explaining the social acceptance of renewables through location-related factors...
Pinto, Lígia; Sousa, Sara; Valente, MarietaThe public perception of renewable energy sources is generally positive, due to their role in air pollution and CO<sub>2</sub> emission mitigation policies. However, there are local environmental detrimental effects, and empirical evidence is not consistent as to the support of local communities. In the present paper, we analyse the antecedents of public generic perceptions of renewables grounded on objective l...
What you get is not what you paid for: New evidence from a lab experiment on ne...
Fernandes, Maria Eduarda; Valente, MarietaIn markets where ethical goods are available, consumers and producers can voluntarily address the negative externality market failure. However, in reality, these goods are often credence goods and the claims are not verifiable by consumers. We design an experiment to explore whether there can be voluntary internalization of negative externalities in markets controlling for different types of information asymmet...
Ageing (un)equally and (un)healthily: On the health status of Portuguese people...
Correia, Isabel M.; Ferreira, Priscila; Pinto, Lígia M.; Valente, Marieta; Veiga, PaulaResearch on the health status and on socio-economic inequality in the health status of Portuguese adults with 50 years of age or more is scarce, but urgent, so that policy-makers can better understand the type of burdens that this ageing process will place on social welfare policies. We use data from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe Wave 6 to investigate the role of gender, income and educat...
3rd Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Energy Economics & 5th Meet...
Pinto, Lígia; Valente, MarietaThe 3rd Annual Conference of the Portuguese Association of Energy Economics – APEEN and the International Meeting on Energy and Environmental Economics – ME3 took place on the 18-19 October 2018 in Braga, Portugal. The event was hosted by the Universidade do Minho and gathered the contributions of specialists in Energy and Environmental Economics to enrich the debate about the many issues raised by the manageme...
How relevant are non-use values and perceptions in economic valuations? The cas...
Sousa, Sara; Botelho, Anabela; Pinto, Lígia M. Costa; Valente, MarietaThe construction of hydropower plants, particularly of large ones, is far from being a consensual decision: advocates defend their construction based on the unquestionable benefits hydropower provides, while critics argue that these facilities are far from harmless and cause adverse impacts on the environment, being not only against the construction but also demanding the destruction of existing ones. We review...
Does remote work improve or impair firm labour productivity? Longitudinal evide...
Monteiro, Natália P.; Straume, Odd Rune; Valente, MarietaWhether or not the use of remote work increases firm labour productivity is theoretically ambiguous. We use a rich and representative sample of Portuguese firms, and within-firm variation in the policy on remote work, over the period 2011-2016, to empirically assess the causal productivity effect of remote work. Our findings from estimations of models with firm fixed effects suggest that the average productivit...
When Is green too rosy? Evidence from a laboratory market experiment on green g...
Fernandes, Maria Eduarda; Valente, MarietaIn a context where sustainable consumption and production need to be encouraged, economic experiments can provide significant insights into how individuals consider environmental externalities in their choices and how public policy can foster the environmental public good. Experimental studies aiming to evaluate market mitigation of externalities through the provision of green goods usually choose to adopt neut...
Perceptions and valuation of GM food: a study on the impact and importance of i...
Valente, Marieta; Chaves, CristinaGiven the scientific uncertainties and differing arguments for and against genetically modified food, perceptions and valuation may depend on information about their different and conflicting potential effects. In this study we explore generic attitudes towards genetically modified organisms, particularly in food, and adopt an economic contingent valuation approach to highlight the relevance of information prov...