The Effect of Respondent Experience/Knowledge in the Elicitation of Contingent Values: An Investigation of Convergent Validity, Procedural Invariance and Reliability

McCollum, Daniel W.; Boyle, Kevin J.

doi:10.1007/s10640-004-0758-2

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Dichotomous choice format is also found to provide valid responses despite whether respondents directly experienced the valued commodity or not (McCollum and Boyle 2005). This result is particularly relevant to our study, because our sample did not distinguished between people with and without personal experiences related to each of the air pollution damages.…”

Section: Identifying Protestersmentioning

confidence: 77%

Does “No” mean “No”? A protest methodology

Dziegielewska

Mendelsohn

2007

Environ Resource Econ

105

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In this paper, we propose a method of identifying and truncating protesters in Contingent Valuation surveys. We propose using a system of Willingness to Pay (WTP) questions that value multiple goods and that use both discrete choice and open-ended questions coupled with multiple questions about protest beliefs administered to the entire sample. Protesters can then be identified because they reject all bids, declare zero on all open-ended questions, and hold protest beliefs. The proposed procedure has been empirically tested on an air pollution data set from Poland, where 27 of the sample was identified as protesters. The adjustment for protesters increased the estimated WTP values by a factor of more than 3. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007Air quality, Contingent Valuation, Embedding, Protest voters, Sequencing,

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Section: Identifying Protestersmentioning

confidence: 77%

Does “No” mean “No”? A protest methodology

Dziegielewska

Mendelsohn

2007

Environ Resource Econ

105

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“…However, our question on WTP refers to a product that is already present in the market and can be understood easily with basic insurance principles. It is well known that familiarity with the proposed good induces wellformed preferences (McCollum & Boyle, 2005). In the case where respondents have little or no experience and knowledge, they may provide invalid responses.…”

Section: On the Determinants Of Wtpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Households’ Willingness to Pay for Health Microinsurance and its Impact on Actual Take-up: Results from a Field Experiment in Senegal

Bonan

LeMay-Boucher

Tenikue

2014

The Journal of Development Studies

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Community-based health insurance schemes (CBHIS) have been present in the region of Theis, Senegal, for many years. Yet, despite the benefits they offer, take-up rates remain low. This article measures the willingness to pay (WTP) for CBHIS premiums in such a context; our results highlight the role of income, wealth and risk preferences as determinants of WTP. We also provide an analysis of the predictive power of WTP on the actual take-up of insurance following our offering of membership to a sample of 360 households. Results show that WTP has a positive and significant impact on actual CBHIS take-up.

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“…The existence of well-formed preferences may be related to respondent's familiarity with, or experience of, the good being valued (Boyle et al, 1993;Roach et al, 1999;Braga and Starmer, 2005;McCollum and Boyle, 2005). Evidence here is mixed.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Evidence here is mixed. Boyle et al (1993) and McCollum and Boyle (2005), when looking at preferences for boating on the Colorado river and moose hunting in Maine, found no significant difference between WTP estimates elicited from more experienced and less experienced respondents. In contrast Roach et al (1993), in a study concerned with boating preferences, found respondents' experience influenced their WTP estimates.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%