Improving validity experiments of contingent valuation methods: Results of efforts to reduce the disparity of hypothetical and actual willingness to pay

Land Economics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 450-461

  Loomis, John ^a   Brown, Thomas ^b   Lucero, Beatrice ^b   Peterson, George ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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EID: 0005325668     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3146908     Document Type: Article

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