Differences between willingness-to-pay estimates from open-ended and discrete-choice contingent valuation methods: the effects of heteroscedasticity

Land Economics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 262-282

  Halvorsen, Bente ^a   Sælensminde, Kjartan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; DISCRETE CHOICE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 0031755140     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3147055     Document Type: Article

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