The role of question order and respondent experience in contingent-valuation studies

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Areas of respondent experience in question ordering in contingent valuation studies are addressed through the experience of white-water boating in the Grand Canyon. Value formation may be affected by respondent experience, leading to valuation estimates with survey instrument effects. When respondents value written scenarios of white-water trips differently to their actural trips, an experience effect is intimated. Question-ordering effects were discovered in some estimates for unexperienced boaters but not for experienced ones.

Research, Observations, Valuation, White-water canoeing, Scientific surveys, White water paddling

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Using conjoint analysis to derive estimates of compensating variation

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A study was conducted on the different approaches to derive estimates of Hicksian compensating variation from conjoint analysis data. The different approaches produced varied results with respect to consistency with utility theory, magnitude of welfare estimates, statistical significance of key variables and confidence bounds on welfare estimates. The results indicate that conjoint analyses are not a panacea for problems concerning contingent-valuation and travel-cost methodologies.

Estimation theory, Welfare economics

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Rethinking the scope test as a criterion for validity in contingent valuation

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Social psychology theory, which is used to examine the viability of contingent valuation testing for environmental goods, is presented.

United States, Usage, Natural resources, Social psychology, Statistical hypothesis testing

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