Response to cost prompts in stated preference valuation of environmental goods
Autor
Burrows, James
Dixon, Powell
Chan, Hiu Man
Institución
Resumen
The stated preference discrete choice experiment, also known as conjoint analysis, is now a standard method for estimating non-use values
of natural resources from respondents’ answers to survey questions.3 A
choice experiment (CE) consists of a sequence of choices among several
options, each offering various combinations of features together with costs
(often expressed as taxes imposed on each household over some number of
years). Through their choices respondents are presumed to reveal whether
they would accept a given cost in exchange for a better level of a natural
resource.