Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Contingent Values: A Comparison of On-Site Users, Off-Site Users, and Non-users

Whitehead, John C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Hoban, Thomas J.; Clifford, William B.

doi:10.1006/jeem.1995.1044

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“…e.g. Boyle et al 1993;Whitehead et al 1995;Cameron and Englin 1997;Czajkowski et al 2015). Furthermore, most of the focus is on the internal validity driven by the comparison of different designs.…”

Section: Survey Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

Carattini

Baranzini

Thalmann

et al. 2017

Environ Resource Econ

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Turning the Paris Agreement's greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ballot on energy taxes, rejected in Switzerland in 2015 by more than 2 million people. Energy taxes were aimed at completely replacing the current value-added tax. We examine the determinants of voting and find that distributional and competitiveness concerns reduced the acceptability of energy taxes, along with the perception of ineffectiveness. Most people would have preferred tax revenues to be allocated for environmental purposes. Second, at the same time of the ballot, we tested the acceptability of alternative designs of a carbon tax with a choice experiment survey on a representative sample of the Swiss population. Survey respondents are informed about environmental, distributional and competitiveness effects of each carbon tax design. These impacts are estimated with a computable general equilibrium model. This original setting generates a series of novel results. Providing information on the expected environmental effectiveness of carbon taxes reduces the demand for environmental earmarking. Making distributional effects salient generates an important demand for progressive designs, e.g. social cushioning or recycling via lump-sum transfers. The case of lump-sum recycling is particularly striking: it is sufficient to show its desirable distributional properties to make it one of the most preferred designs, which corresponds to a completely novel result in the literature. We show that providing detailed information on the functioning of environmental taxes may contribute to close both the gap between acceptability ex ante and ex post and the gap between economists' prescriptions and the preferences of the general public.

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Section: Survey Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

Carattini

Baranzini

Thalmann

et al. 2017

Environ Resource Econ

209

135

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“…Following Whitehead et al (1995) [58], the mid-and downstream on-site users of water from the Paldang Lake in the Han River basin are surveyed in this study. This is based on their acquaintance with the goods, and also with the fact that the WTPs of on-site users are more reliable because non-users do not take into account their income constraints when presenting their WTP.…”

Section: Contingent Valuation Scenarios and Target Populationmentioning

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Economic Valuation of the Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation in South Korea: Correcting for the Endogeneity Bias in Contingent Valuation

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Abstract:In this study, we use the Contingent Valuation (CV) method to estimate households' willingness to pay (WTP) for the aquatic ecosystem health (biodiversity) improvement. This paper extends CV studies by dealing with the endogenous effect of a proxy variable, namely the subjective experience of negative environmental quality changes. The results show that the correction for the endogeneity bias facilitates the efficiency of parameter estimation in the empirical model. The mean WTP per household accounts for around 46.8% (KRW 79.6) of the current water use charge (KRW 170 per cubic meter). The total benefit from conserving the biodiversity is around KRW 198.62 billion. We found several factors that affect households' WTP for fish biodiversity conservation, suggesting the importance of these factors in the formulation of water policies associated with aquatic biodiversity. In addition, the inefficient water management costs should be redistributed to other projects or new programs such as for the fish biodiversity conservation.

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“…Despite attempts to provide information on the goods in question during the course of a valuation survey, a lack of experience has for many years been recognised as a significant reliability problem in SP studies (e.g. Whitehead et al, 1995) with low experience being associated with framing effects and related preference anomalies (Boyle et al, 1993;Bateman et al, 2008).…”

Section: Modelling Change In Biodiversitymentioning

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Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis and Scenario Valuation of Changes in Ecosystem Services

Bateman

Harwood

Abson

et al. 2013

Environ Resource Econ

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Abstract:We combine natural science modelling and valuation techniques to present economic analyses of a variety of land use change scenarios generated for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment. Specifically, the agricultural, greenhouse gas, recreational and urban greenspace impacts of envisioned land use change are valued. Particular attention is given to the incorporation of spatial variation in the natural environment and to addressing issues such as biodiversity impacts where reliable values are not available. Results show that the incorporation of ecosystem services and their values within analyses can substantially change decisions.

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Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Contingent Values: A Comparison of On-Site Users, Off-Site Users, and Non-users

Cited by 97 publications

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Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

Economic Valuation of the Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation in South Korea: Correcting for the Endogeneity Bias in Contingent Valuation

Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis and Scenario Valuation of Changes in Ecosystem Services

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