the lake urmia and its satellite wetlands have been selected as a demonstration site for the united nations development program / global environment facility / department of environment conservation of iranian wetlands project. this project aims to demonstrate reduction of the major threats of this wetland protected area coordinated through an integrated management plan. a choice experiment was...

the lake urmia and satellite wetlands was selected as a demonstration site for the undp/gef/doe conservation of iranian wetlands project. this project aims to demonstrate reduction of the major threats of this wetland protected area coordinated through an integrated management plan. we developed a choice experiment to examine public preferences and elicit their willingness to pay on improvement...

the purpose of this study is estimate the protection value of gavkhony wetland ecosystem attributes with use of choice experiment approach and conditional logit model. data needed extracted from six different choice experiment questionnaires filled out by 500 random households in isfahan and varzane city. each questionnaire contained 72 hypothetical policies (options), 36 choice sets, 2442 obse...

despite progress towards greater public engagement, questions about the optimal approach to access public preferences remain unanswered. we review two increasingly popular methods for engaging the public in healthcare priority-setting and determining their preferences; the citizens’ jury (cj) and discrete choice experiment (dce). we discuss the theoretical framework from which each method is de...

in today’s world, no one can deny the expansion of economic influence in the various aspects of social life and economization of immaterial issues of social life is becoming more obvious every day. the valuation of cultural goods, as one of the most important economic aspects related to arts and culture, is chosen to be considered in this study. the necessity of considering the economic valuati...

background: bleeding events in hemophilic patients with inhibitors are managed by bypassing agents. currently available agents in iran are recombinant activated factor vii (rfviia; aryogen, aryoseven) and feiba (factor eight inhibitor bypassing agent). no standardized and accurate assay is currently available for monitoring the effectiveness of bypassing agents. we suggested that history of the...

We conduct a neutral-context laboratory experiment to systematically investigate the role of the hit-by-bus concern in explaining the annuitization puzzle: the low rate of retirement-asset annuitization relative to the predictions of standard models. We vary endowed asset (annuity vs. stock of wealth vs. no explicit endowment), and find a strong endowment effect. Furthermore, we find that the o...