William F. Vásquez's research while affiliated with Fairfield University and other places

... As a country with a water shortage, it is urgent for the local government to establish an efficient water price system, considering the benefits to all participants. It is highly recommended that three key factors-safety, affordability, and sustainability-should be included in the water price system, and the benefits of the government as well as the water suppliers and users are considered together to improve the water supply system and the water price system in this study [27][28][29][30][31][32]. ...

... Also, the long-term impact of environmental influence can result in a "poverty trap," which instantly reduces consumption, constitutes irreversible losses in child education, and compels the child to engage in hazardous labour. Reductions in children's schooling and household child labour have been reported as strategies to cope with environmental shocks associated with natural disasters and socio-economic shocks (Vásquez & Bohara, 2010). ...

... For instance, Choi et al. [87] and Lacher et al. [90] studied the economic value of cultural sites, while analysing the preferences of tourists for alternative measures to better manage them. With regard to water, research efforts have been directed towards understanding the impact that water-saving practices, such as increasing water prices, premiums, installing new water systems, or building new reservoirs, may have on tourists' marginal utility [59,[91][92][93][94]. ...

... Studies that directly investigated public preferences for reducing SLR risks found that respondents were generally supportive of mitigation or adaptation measures and were willing to pay to avoid the risks (Kloos and Baumert, 2015;Remoundou et al., 2015;Jamero et al., 2017;Narayan et al., 2020). However, coastal communities have also expressed objections, citing concerns about the suitability of strategies created in non-local contexts , corruption that appropriates adaptation funds (Vásquez et al., 2022), or other issues that are deemed more pressing than SLR risks (Thomas et al., 2015). ...

... The carbon footprint methodology is an analysis of the life cycle of the product with a detailed definition of all involved processes to detect direct and indirect carbon emissions [20]. External costs exist when "the private calculation of benefits or costs differs from society's valuation of benefits or costs" [22] with the evaluation aiming to include external costs in the impact assessment [23]. For example, pollution which represents an external cost because damages associated with it are borne by society as a whole and are not reflected in market transactions [24]. ...

... Other articles have investigated preferences for vaccines for the human papillomavirus vaccine [14,36], dengue [31,42], hepatitis B [44], monkeypox [23], among others. Presently, during the COVID-19 outbreak, several studies have used SP methods to estimate preferences (and the WTP) for vaccination in countries such as Australia [8], Chile [13,20], China [19,32,63], Ecuador [51], Indonesia [24], the United States [10,12,57], and the United Kingdom [40], as well as in groups of countries [58]. ...

... Other articles have investigated preferences for vaccines for the human papillomavirus vaccine [14,36], dengue [31,42], hepatitis B [44], monkeypox [23], among others. Presently, during the COVID-19 outbreak, several studies have used SP methods to estimate preferences (and the WTP) for vaccination in countries such as Australia [8], Chile [13,20], China [19,32,63], Ecuador [51], Indonesia [24], the United States [10,12,57], and the United Kingdom [40], as well as in groups of countries [58]. ...

... Existing studies related to these methods have been broadly used in many fields, including cultural, environmental, health, transportation, and other issues (Carson, 2012;Qiu et al., 2020;He and Zhang, 2021;Vasquez and Trudeau, 2022). The CV survey asks questions that help to reveal the economic tradeoff each person would make concerning the value of goods or services. ...

... The maximum WTP for the consumer decreases with the increase in the number of interruptions per year (Hensher et al. 2005). HH WTP increases when both service reliability and water quality are improved (Vasquez et al. 2021). ...

... Si bien el uso de pruebas serológicas no es altamente eficaz en el diagnóstico precoz, la situación de salud del país dada la escasez de insumos, motivó el uso de esta técnica como tamizaje. La experiencia diagnóstica en el estado Falcón demostró que es una herramienta de uso masivo, incluso en pacientes asintomáticos, facilitando el desarrollo de las medidas de contingencia, así como también aportando datos estadísticos que permitieron observar la evolución de la infección y la respuesta a la inmunización [3,7]. El diagnóstico en etapas iniciales de la infección se realiza mediante la Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa con actividad de Transcriptasa Reversa (RT-PCR), método estándar de oro que, por los costos y la logística necesaria, fue de difícil acceso a la población general, por lo que la detección de antígenos realizada a través de pruebas rápidas mejoró el panorama del diagnóstico precoz, con la limitante de ser útil solo en los primeros días de la infección [8]. ...