K G Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 314119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K G Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | K G |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cultural Consumption Patterns in South Africa: An Investigation of the Theory of Cultural Omnivores
Estimating the Marginal Utility of Different Sections of an Arts Festival: The Case of Visitors to the South African National Arts Festival
This paper applies choice experiments (CE) to value the utility visitors derive from various sections of the National Arts Festival held once a year in Grahamstown, South Africa. A brief survey of the method and its use to date in valuing cultural goods is provided. The CE conducted at the 2003 South African National Arts Festival is described. The results show that a conditional logit model performs very well in valuing Festival attributes and p…
Estimating the Value of Improved Street Lighting: A Factor Analytical Discrete Choice Approach
This paper investigates the benefits of improved street lights to households, associated with the replacement of low-pressure sodium orange/yellow street lights with high-pressure sodium white street lights. Improved street lighting provides higher luminosity, improved colour rendition and less light pollution into the night sky. Benefits include reductions in crime and road accidents, streetscape enhancements and increased amenity attributable t…
Stated Preference and the Estimation of Environmental Values
This paper reviews some of the principal issues involved in deriving accurate estimates of the value of environmental goods using stated choice methods. These encompass embedding and scope effects, and whether to value goods independently, sequentially, or simultaneously. Other issues concern the type of contingent valuation elicitation format to adopt. If the purpose of the study to value attributes of an environmental good, as well as the value…
Methodological issues in valuing the benefits of environmentally sensitive areas
Disamenity externalities from utility networks
Household Behaviour in Response to Earthquake Risk: An Assessment of Alternative Theories
Households respond to earthquake risk in different ways. The main theories explaining human behaviour under threat of earthquakes are reviewed. A survey of households’ responses in Tehran and Rasht in Iran to earthquake risks is used to assess the validity of psychological, ‘need’, socio‐cultural and economic theories in explaining behaviour. More support of cognitive and cultural theories is found rather than economic and ‘need’ theories of eart…
Benefits received by visitors to heritage sites: A case study of Warkworth Castle
Heritage sites attract many visitors each year. However, the revenue collected in entrance charges does not represent the total benefit provided by heritage sites. Some visitors value their visit more than the entrance charge; some decline to enter at the price but are willing to pay something to enter; other people derive utility from the contribution of heritage buildings to the landscape; whilst others benefit from the knowledge that the herit…
Cost-benefit analysis and the environment
Judging Development Control Decisions
Development control decisions seek to ensure that planning applications conform to development plans and that environmental externalities are minimised. The cognitive continuum and lens models provide frameworks for describing how people make these development control decisions in practice under the Town and Country Planning Acts in England. A discrete choice decision model is developed to analyse the recommendations of the planning officer and t…
The benefits and costs of the somerset levels and moors ESA
Implications of Recreation Demand for Forest Expansion in Great Britain
BENSON J. F. And WILLIS K. G. (1993) Implications of recreation demand for forest expansion in Great Britain, Reg. Studies 27, 29–39. The paper uses recent estimates for the value of non-priced recreation on the Forestry Commission estate to examine the implications for new forest investment in both financial and spatial terms. Using recreation as the sole additional criterion, the priority area for new planting should be lowland England. The add…
Economics of multihabitation: Housing conditions, household occupancy and household structure under rent control, inflation, and nonmarketability of ownership rights
The Recreational Value of the Forestry Commission Estate in Great Britain: A Clawson‐knetsch Travel Cost Analysis
Mid-Wales: Choosing the Right Perspectives
On Objectivity in Economic Research and Input—Output Tables: A Reply
Although the role of GRIT as a hybrid local input — output (I — O) model is recognised, it is argued that most applications in Britain use only nonsurvey data. Professional judgment as part of GRIT methodology is seen as intuitive. Questions remain as to what constitutes a ‘gold standard’ against which to judge the efficacy of nonsurvey and hybrid local I — O tables
The Impact of Factory Development on 'Growth Town' Employment in Mid-Wales: A Comment
A Comparison of User Benefits and Costs of Nature Conservation at Three Nature Reserves
WILLIS K. G. and BENSON J. F. (1988) A comparison of user benefits and costs of nature conservation at three nature reserves, Reg. Studies 22, 417–228. Benefits from conserving wildlife at three Sites of Special Scientific Interest are estimated using a travel cost method, recording demand in terms of actual site visits. These benefits are compared to the costs of nature conservation, both the financial cost which is (or could be) incurred under …
Spatially Disaggregated input-output Tables: An Evaluation and Comparison of Survey and Nonsurvey Results
Although nonsurvey input - output (I-O) models have been used to estimate the employment impact of particular industrial aid programmes and policies in terms of their multiplier effects, their accuracy is questionable. Nonsurvey 1 - 0 models are estimated for Wales and Staffordshire and compared with previously published surveyed 1 - 0 tables for these areas. Disaggregating national 1 - 0 tables by location quotients produced biased multiplier es…
Contemporary Issues in Town Planning
Errors in Variables: A Problem in Regression and its Solution
It is not uncommon in socioeconomic analysis to measure variables with error, as in a 10% census. The estimation of linear regression coefficients using such ‘errors-in-variables’ models requires modification of the usual ordinary least squares techniques. The underlying theory both for simple and for multiple regression models is explained, and followed up with a numerical example based on a structure plan model of car ownership
The value of green belt land
Estimating the Benefits of Job Creation from Local Investment Subsidies
This paper reviews the application of project appraisal techniques to analysing the cost-effectiveness of local investment subsidies (advance factory building). Cost per job measures are shown to be dependent upon the method of assessing the number of jobs created, and the assumptions used in evaluating Exchequer as well as social costs and benefits. If realistic probabilities are adopted about the likelihood of previously unemployed persons obta…
Waiting lists: Modelling the cost of waiting for public housing
Spatial variations in crime in England and Wales: Testing an economic model
Willis K. G. (1983) Spatial variations in crime in England and Wales: testing an economic model, Reg. Studies 17, 261–272. This article examines variations in crime rates for three offence groups—violence against the person, sexual offences, and theft—between police force areas in England and Wales for 1979. A simultaneous-equations model is used to link measured crime rates with the conviction rate, expenditures on police and police manpower. Sp…
Economics of multihabitation: Housing conditions, household occupancy and household structure under rent control, inflation, and nonmarketability of ownership rights
Spatial variations in crime in England and Wales: Testing an economic model
Willis K. G. (1983) Spatial variations in crime in England and Wales: testing an economic model, Reg. Studies 17, 261–272. This article examines variations in crime rates for three offence groups—violence against the person, sexual offences, and theft—between police force areas in England and Wales for 1979. A simultaneous-equations model is used to link measured crime rates with the conviction rate, expenditures on police and police manpower. Sp…
Benefits received by visitors to heritage sites: A case study of Warkworth Castle
Heritage sites attract many visitors each year. However, the revenue collected in entrance charges does not represent the total benefit provided by heritage sites. Some visitors value their visit more than the entrance charge; some decline to enter at the price but are willing to pay something to enter; other people derive utility from the contribution of heritage buildings to the landscape; whilst others benefit from the knowledge that the herit…
Cultural Consumption Patterns in South Africa: An Investigation of the Theory of Cultural Omnivores
Judging Development Control Decisions
Development control decisions seek to ensure that planning applications conform to development plans and that environmental externalities are minimised. The cognitive continuum and lens models provide frameworks for describing how people make these development control decisions in practice under the Town and Country Planning Acts in England. A discrete choice decision model is developed to analyse the recommendations of the planning officer and t…
The Recreational Value of the Forestry Commission Estate in Great Britain: A Clawson‐knetsch Travel Cost Analysis
The value of green belt land
Estimating the Marginal Utility of Different Sections of an Arts Festival: The Case of Visitors to the South African National Arts Festival
This paper applies choice experiments (CE) to value the utility visitors derive from various sections of the National Arts Festival held once a year in Grahamstown, South Africa. A brief survey of the method and its use to date in valuing cultural goods is provided. The CE conducted at the 2003 South African National Arts Festival is described. The results show that a conditional logit model performs very well in valuing Festival attributes and p…
Estimating the Value of Improved Street Lighting: A Factor Analytical Discrete Choice Approach
This paper investigates the benefits of improved street lights to households, associated with the replacement of low-pressure sodium orange/yellow street lights with high-pressure sodium white street lights. Improved street lighting provides higher luminosity, improved colour rendition and less light pollution into the night sky. Benefits include reductions in crime and road accidents, streetscape enhancements and increased amenity attributable t…
Household Behaviour in Response to Earthquake Risk: An Assessment of Alternative Theories
Households respond to earthquake risk in different ways. The main theories explaining human behaviour under threat of earthquakes are reviewed. A survey of households’ responses in Tehran and Rasht in Iran to earthquake risks is used to assess the validity of psychological, ‘need’, socio‐cultural and economic theories in explaining behaviour. More support of cognitive and cultural theories is found rather than economic and ‘need’ theories of eart…
The influence of spatial structure and socio-economic factors on migration rates: A case study: Tyneside 1961–1966
Willis K. G. (1972) The influence of spatial structure and socio-economic factors on migration rates. A case study: Tyneside 1961–1966, Reg. Studies 6, 69–82. The 1961 and 1966 Census indicate wide variations in migration rates per 1000 population, though precise analysis is hampered by census tabulation by local authority areas. Numerous theoretical studies have emphasized the importance of the structure of space in which migration occurs, but t…
The benefits and costs of the somerset levels and moors ESA
A Comparison of User Benefits and Costs of Nature Conservation at Three Nature Reserves
WILLIS K. G. and BENSON J. F. (1988) A comparison of user benefits and costs of nature conservation at three nature reserves, Reg. Studies 22, 417–228. Benefits from conserving wildlife at three Sites of Special Scientific Interest are estimated using a travel cost method, recording demand in terms of actual site visits. These benefits are compared to the costs of nature conservation, both the financial cost which is (or could be) incurred under …
Rural Resource Development: An Economic Approach
Methodological issues in valuing the benefits of environmentally sensitive areas
Implications of Recreation Demand for Forest Expansion in Great Britain
BENSON J. F. And WILLIS K. G. (1993) Implications of recreation demand for forest expansion in Great Britain, Reg. Studies 27, 29–39. The paper uses recent estimates for the value of non-priced recreation on the Forestry Commission estate to examine the implications for new forest investment in both financial and spatial terms. Using recreation as the sole additional criterion, the priority area for new planting should be lowland England. The add…
Waiting lists: Modelling the cost of waiting for public housing
Disamenity externalities from utility networks
Mid-Wales: Choosing the Right Perspectives
The Impact of Factory Development on 'Growth Town' Employment in Mid-Wales: A Comment
Spatially Disaggregated input-output Tables: An Evaluation and Comparison of Survey and Nonsurvey Results
Although nonsurvey input - output (I-O) models have been used to estimate the employment impact of particular industrial aid programmes and policies in terms of their multiplier effects, their accuracy is questionable. Nonsurvey 1 - 0 models are estimated for Wales and Staffordshire and compared with previously published surveyed 1 - 0 tables for these areas. Disaggregating national 1 - 0 tables by location quotients produced biased multiplier es…
Contemporary Issues in Town Planning
Estimating the Benefits of Job Creation from Local Investment Subsidies
This paper reviews the application of project appraisal techniques to analysing the cost-effectiveness of local investment subsidies (advance factory building). Cost per job measures are shown to be dependent upon the method of assessing the number of jobs created, and the assumptions used in evaluating Exchequer as well as social costs and benefits. If realistic probabilities are adopted about the likelihood of previously unemployed persons obta…
New jobs in urban areas—an evaluation of advance factory building
1983). New jobs in urban areas—an evaluation of advance factory building. Local Government Studies: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 73-85
Rural Development Planning and Policy Evaluation
The influence of spatial structure and socio-economic factors on migration rates: A case study: Tyneside 1961–1966
Willis K. G. (1972) The influence of spatial structure and socio-economic factors on migration rates. A case study: Tyneside 1961–1966, Reg. Studies 6, 69–82. The 1961 and 1966 Census indicate wide variations in migration rates per 1000 population, though precise analysis is hampered by census tabulation by local authority areas. Numerous theoretical studies have emphasized the importance of the structure of space in which migration occurs, but t…
Rural Resource Development: An Economic Approach
Spatial variations in crime in England and Wales: Testing an economic model
Willis K. G. (1983) Spatial variations in crime in England and Wales: testing an economic model, Reg. Studies 17, 261–272. This article examines variations in crime rates for three offence groups—violence against the person, sexual offences, and theft—between police force areas in England and Wales for 1979. A simultaneous-equations model is used to link measured crime rates with the conviction rate, expenditures on police and police manpower. Sp…
New jobs in urban areas—an evaluation of advance factory building
1983). New jobs in urban areas—an evaluation of advance factory building. Local Government Studies: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 73-85
Waiting lists: Modelling the cost of waiting for public housing
The value of green belt land
Estimating the Benefits of Job Creation from Local Investment Subsidies
This paper reviews the application of project appraisal techniques to analysing the cost-effectiveness of local investment subsidies (advance factory building). Cost per job measures are shown to be dependent upon the method of assessing the number of jobs created, and the assumptions used in evaluating Exchequer as well as social costs and benefits. If realistic probabilities are adopted about the likelihood of previously unemployed persons obta…
Errors in Variables: A Problem in Regression and its Solution
It is not uncommon in socioeconomic analysis to measure variables with error, as in a 10% census. The estimation of linear regression coefficients using such ‘errors-in-variables’ models requires modification of the usual ordinary least squares techniques. The underlying theory both for simple and for multiple regression models is explained, and followed up with a numerical example based on a structure plan model of car ownership
Spatially Disaggregated input-output Tables: An Evaluation and Comparison of Survey and Nonsurvey Results
Although nonsurvey input - output (I-O) models have been used to estimate the employment impact of particular industrial aid programmes and policies in terms of their multiplier effects, their accuracy is questionable. Nonsurvey 1 - 0 models are estimated for Wales and Staffordshire and compared with previously published surveyed 1 - 0 tables for these areas. Disaggregating national 1 - 0 tables by location quotients produced biased multiplier es…
Contemporary Issues in Town Planning
The Impact of Factory Development on 'Growth Town' Employment in Mid-Wales: A Comment
A Comparison of User Benefits and Costs of Nature Conservation at Three Nature Reserves
WILLIS K. G. and BENSON J. F. (1988) A comparison of user benefits and costs of nature conservation at three nature reserves, Reg. Studies 22, 417–228. Benefits from conserving wildlife at three Sites of Special Scientific Interest are estimated using a travel cost method, recording demand in terms of actual site visits. These benefits are compared to the costs of nature conservation, both the financial cost which is (or could be) incurred under …
On Objectivity in Economic Research and Input—Output Tables: A Reply
Although the role of GRIT as a hybrid local input — output (I — O) model is recognised, it is argued that most applications in Britain use only nonsurvey data. Professional judgment as part of GRIT methodology is seen as intuitive. Questions remain as to what constitutes a ‘gold standard’ against which to judge the efficacy of nonsurvey and hybrid local I — O tables
Mid-Wales: Choosing the Right Perspectives
Economics of multihabitation: Housing conditions, household occupancy and household structure under rent control, inflation, and nonmarketability of ownership rights
The Recreational Value of the Forestry Commission Estate in Great Britain: A Clawson‐knetsch Travel Cost Analysis
Implications of Recreation Demand for Forest Expansion in Great Britain
BENSON J. F. And WILLIS K. G. (1993) Implications of recreation demand for forest expansion in Great Britain, Reg. Studies 27, 29–39. The paper uses recent estimates for the value of non-priced recreation on the Forestry Commission estate to examine the implications for new forest investment in both financial and spatial terms. Using recreation as the sole additional criterion, the priority area for new planting should be lowland England. The add…
The benefits and costs of the somerset levels and moors ESA
Cost-benefit analysis and the environment
Judging Development Control Decisions
Development control decisions seek to ensure that planning applications conform to development plans and that environmental externalities are minimised. The cognitive continuum and lens models provide frameworks for describing how people make these development control decisions in practice under the Town and Country Planning Acts in England. A discrete choice decision model is developed to analyse the recommendations of the planning officer and t…
Benefits received by visitors to heritage sites: A case study of Warkworth Castle
Heritage sites attract many visitors each year. However, the revenue collected in entrance charges does not represent the total benefit provided by heritage sites. Some visitors value their visit more than the entrance charge; some decline to enter at the price but are willing to pay something to enter; other people derive utility from the contribution of heritage buildings to the landscape; whilst others benefit from the knowledge that the herit…
Disamenity externalities from utility networks
Household Behaviour in Response to Earthquake Risk: An Assessment of Alternative Theories
Households respond to earthquake risk in different ways. The main theories explaining human behaviour under threat of earthquakes are reviewed. A survey of households’ responses in Tehran and Rasht in Iran to earthquake risks is used to assess the validity of psychological, ‘need’, socio‐cultural and economic theories in explaining behaviour. More support of cognitive and cultural theories is found rather than economic and ‘need’ theories of eart…
Methodological issues in valuing the benefits of environmentally sensitive areas
Economics (18 works) · Geography (15 works) · Business (13 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Housing Market and Economics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Microeconomics (7 works) · Contingent valuation (6 works) · Econometrics (6 works)