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The WNE Working Papers series has been published by the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw since 2008.

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WP(11/2018)270. Recreational Value of the Baltic Sea: a Spatially Explicit Site Choice Model Accounting for Environmental Conditions

Authors: Czajkowski Mikołaj, Zandersen Marianne, Aslam Uzma, Angelidis Ioannis, Becker Thomas, Budziński Wiktor, Zagórska Katarzyna
The Baltic Sea plays a significant role for recreational use in the nine littoral countries with more than 70% of the population visiting the coast, representing some 80 million recreation visits annually. Understanding the values associated with coa…

WP270. Recreational Value of the Baltic Sea: a Spatially Explicit Site Choice Model Accounting for Environmental Conditions

The Baltic Sea plays a significant role for recreational use in the nine littoral countries with more than 70% of the population visiting the coast, representing some 80 million recreation visits annually. Understanding the values associated with coastal recreation and the potential welfare changes of improving the state of the Baltic Sea is important for managing the marine environment. We estimate a spatially explicit travel cost model of coastal site recreation to the Baltic Sea to assess the welfare of accessing individual sites, identify recreational hotspots and simulate the welfare changes resulting from improving environmental and infrastructure conditions. The total benefits associated with the Baltic Sea based recreation amount to 11.4 billion EUR per year with significant variation across sites. Improving water quality and infrastructure boost the recreational value by nearly 9 billion EUR, almost doubling the recreational benefits compared to current conditions.


DOI: http://doi.org.10.26405/WP/WNE/2018/270/011
Czajkowski Mikołaj, Zandersen Marianne, Aslam Uzma, Angelidis Ioannis, Becker Thomas, Budziński Wiktor, Zagórska Katarzyna
Recreational benefits Site choice Random Utility Model Baltic Sea Blue Flag

WP(16/2017)245. Choosing the future: economic preferences for higher education using discrete choice experiment method

Authors: Czajkowski Mikołaj, Gajderowicz Tomasz, Giergiczny Marek, Grotkowska Gabriela, Sztandar-Sztanderska Urszula
This study illustrates how respondents' stated choices (the discrete choice experiment method) combined with the random utility framework can be used to model preferences for higher education. The flexibility offered by stated preference data cir…

WP245. Choosing the future: economic preferences for higher education using discrete choice experiment method

This study illustrates how respondents' stated choices (the discrete choice experiment method) combined with the random utility framework can be used to model preferences for higher education. The flexibility offered by stated preference data circumvents limitations of other approaches, and allows quantifying young people' preferences for selected attributes of higher education programs that are typically highly correlated in revealed preference data. The empirical study presented here is based on a survey of 20,000 Polish respondents aged 18-30, who stated their preferences for higher education programs in carefully prepared hypothetical choice situations. The attributes we considered include tuition fee, expected salary after graduation, quality of institution, interest in the field of study, distance from home, and mode of study. Using random parameters and latent class mixed multinomial logit models, we can formally describe young peoples' preferences, and identify the financial trade-offs they are willing to make, that is, estimate their willingness to pay for specific attribute levels in terms of increased tuition fees or expected salary after graduation. Accounting for respondents' observed and unobserved preference heterogeneity, we address a few research questions related to, for example, distinct preferences of students whose neither parent attained tertiary education, students from lower socio-economic groups, or students of a particular gender. Overall, we demonstrate how stated preference methods can be a useful tool for exploring economic preferences, better understanding the determinants of choices, forecasting, and designing the services offered by higher education institutions in an optimal way.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.26405/WP/WNE/2017/245/016
Czajkowski Mikołaj, Gajderowicz Tomasz, Giergiczny Marek, Grotkowska Gabriela, Sztandar-Sztanderska Urszula
higher education institution choice random utility model stated preferences discrete choice experiment

WP(9/2010)32. Nature protection in an economically depressed region

Authors: Giergiczny Marek, Valasiuk Sviataslau, Żylicz Tomasz
We look at perspectives of nature protection in a wetland of international importance in South-Western part of Belarus. The region is economically depressed, which may prove to be a factor in local conservation initiatives. A theoretical model is dev…

WP32. Nature protection in an economically depressed region

We look at perspectives of nature protection in a wetland of international importance in South-Western part of Belarus. The region is economically depressed, which may prove to be a factor in local conservation initiatives. A theoretical model is developed to identify conditions for the local population to get involved in the fen mire conservation projects. The model is then verified by means of a choice experiment administered in villages neighbouring the site. The main outcome of the valuation experiments is to demonstrate that a carefully designed conservation programme is likely to enjoy the support of the local population who appreciates economic opportunities provided by saving the wetland.


Giergiczny Marek, Valasiuk Sviataslau, Żylicz Tomasz
wetlands biodiversity protection local development ecological tourism choice experiment (CE) random utility model (RUM)
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