Contingent valuation when respondents are ambivalent
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A research study explores contingent valuation when survey respondents are ambivalent over trade-offs between money and changes environmental amenity levels. These respondents, who were asked to express their intensity of preferences via polychotomous choice questions in two separate studies, may experience difficulty in resolving such ambivalence. Results show that dichotomous choice responses seem to reflect a conservatism strategy, with ambivalent respondents having a tendency to turn down any move away from the baseline.
Publication Name: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0095-0696
Year: 1995
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Assessing the validity and reliability of contingent values: a comparison of on-site users, off-site users, and non-users
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A study introduced tests to establish the validity and reliability of willingness-to-pay (WTP). It explores the importance of acquired information in assessing the validity and reliability of contingent values for changes in natural resources allocation. Tests were introduced for validity assessment based on relative price effects and for reliability assessment based on an alternative form of the valuation question. Results show that the set of usable WTP responses includes both on-site and off-site users of a resource.
Publication Name: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0095-0696
Year: 1995
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Willingness to pay for quality improvements: should revealed and stated preference data be combined?
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Revealed and stated preference data should not be combined when assessing environmental quality improvements and the willingness of the recreational user to pay for improvements. Stated preferences are necessary to anticipate and enact future improvements. The data should be combined only when they both imply the same change in future user trips induced by the improvement.
Publication Name: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Subject: Environmental services industry
ISSN: 0095-0696
Year: 1997
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