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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
Asking Willingness-to-Accept Questions in Stated Preference Surveys: A Review and Research Agenda | |
Dale Whittington; Wiktor Adamowicz; Patrick Lloyd-Smith | |
发表日期 | 2016-05-27 |
出版年 | 2016 |
页码 | EfD DP 16-18 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Stated preference (SP) researchers have encountered an increasing number of policy problems for which a willingness-to-accept (WTA) compensation question would seem to be the most reasonable approach to structure the respondent’s valuation choice task. However, most SP researchers are still reluctant to pose WTA questions to respondents due to concerns about reliability of responses and confusion about what contexts warrant a WTA question compared to a willingness-to-pay (WTP) question. This paper synthesizes the current literature, provides guidance on when and how to use WTA elicitation formats, and identifies research needs. We present a typology of valuation tasks that illustrates the situations in which WTA questions are appropriate and should be used to estimate welfare-theoretic measures of economic benefits—and when they should be avoided. We also discuss three different design issues that SP researchers need to consider when they use WTA questions: 1) elicitation of reference and status quo conditions, 2) incentive compatibility and private versus public goods, and 3) nonconforming responses. We conclude that good survey design makes it possible to ask respondents “sensible” WTA questions in many cases, yet several key research issues require attention. |
URL | http://www.rff.org/research/publications/asking-willingness-accept-questions-stated-preference-surveys-review-and |
来源智库 | Resources for the Future (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/41447 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dale Whittington,Wiktor Adamowicz,Patrick Lloyd-Smith. Asking Willingness-to-Accept Questions in Stated Preference Surveys: A Review and Research Agenda. 2016. |
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