Two explanations to the willingness to accept and willingness to pay gap plus an alternative
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Willingness to accept; willingness to pay; subjective well-being;All these keywords.
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- Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- A10 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - General
- D00 - Microeconomics - - General - - - General
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