Sequencing and Nesting in Contingent Valuation Surveys

Carson, Richard T.; Mitchell, Robert Cameron

doi:10.1006/jeem.1995.1011

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“…To do so, we made use of a research method developed by economists called "contingent valuation" (Carson & Mitchell, 1995). The purpose of this sort of research is to gauge the economic value that people attach to "public goods," such as parks and undeveloped sites of natural beauty.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A central principle in this research, and in fact in all of economics, is that people should not place a lower value on a greater quantity of a particular good (Carson & Mitchell, 1995). So, for example, if people are asked to value the existence of a 1-mile segment of clean river water or a 10-mile segment, they should place no lower value on the latter than on the former.…”

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Violating Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude Questions

Holbrook

Krosnick

Carson

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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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This research distinguishes conversational norms from conversational conventions and tests the notion that violation of conversational conventions in attitude questions disrupts processing and reduces data quality. Our first study showed that in questions with simple, dichotomous affirmative and negative response alternatives, respondents expect the affirmative response alternative to be offered before the negative one. Four studies showed thatThe authors thank

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Violating Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude Questions

Holbrook

Krosnick

Carson

et al. 2000

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…Moreover, SBC formats also can be used to estimate the value of changes in attributes other than cost, if one asks statistically equivalent subsamples of SBC questions that differ on the attributes. The simplest variant of this is the well-known external scope test (Carson and Mitchell 1995). 12 We propose the following definition.…”

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A Common Nomenclature for Stated Preference Elicitation Approaches

Carson

Louviere

2011

Environ Resource Econ

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It is often difficult to determine what actually was done in work involving data collected with stated preference surveys because the terms used to describe various procedures have ambiguous and sometimes conflicting meanings. Further, terms used to describe data collection procedures often are confounded with terms used to describe statistical techniques. We call for the use of a common nomenclature to describe what was done in a data collection effort for stated preference studies, and take a first step at setting out such nomenclature. We only seek to improve clarity in the communication of research results and take no position here on appropriateness of particular procedures.

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“…Evidence from the empirical literature has also been presented to support the contention that scope insensitivity is more often the exception rather than the rule in carefully-conducted CV studies (Carson and Mitchell 1995;Carson 1997;Smith and Osborne 1996).…”

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“…Bateman et al (2002) distinguish between scope tests, which measure differences in WTP resulting from a change in one argument of the utility function, and embedding tests, which measure differences in WTP resulting from a change in multiple arguments of the utility function. In this study, we conduct both scope and embedding tests since we measure (1) differences in WTP across samples for changes to solely species improvement levels (scope tests), (2) only the number of species (scope tests), and (3) both simultaneously (embedding tests), with the last ones being comparisons of perfectly embedded goods (Carson and Mitchell 1995). Henceforward, we refer to both embedding and scope tests as "scope tests" for simplicity.…”

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External Tests of Scope and Embedding in Stated Preference Choice Experiments: An Application to Endangered Species Valuation

Lew

Wallmo

2010

Environ Resource Econ

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A criticism often levied against stated preference (SP) valuation results is that they sometimes do not display sensitivity to differences in the magnitude or scope of the good being valued. In this study, we test the sensitivity of preferences for several proposed expanded protection programs that would protect up to three US Endangered Species Actlisted species: the Puget Sound Chinook salmon, the smalltooth sawfish, and the Hawaiian monk seal. An external scope test is employed via a split-sample SP choice experiment survey to evaluate whether there is a significant difference in willingness to pay (WTP) for protecting more species and/or achieving greater improvements in the status of the species. The majority of 46 scope tests indicate sensitivity to scope, and the pattern of scope test failures is consistent with diminishing marginal utility with respect to the amount of protection

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Sequencing and Nesting in Contingent Valuation Surveys

Cited by 230 publications

References 15 publications

Violating Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude Questions

Violating Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude Questions

A Common Nomenclature for Stated Preference Elicitation Approaches

External Tests of Scope and Embedding in Stated Preference Choice Experiments: An Application to Endangered Species Valuation

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