Payment certainty in discrete choice contingent valuation responses: Results from a field validity test

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 886-902

  Vossler, Christian A ^a   Ethier, Robert G ^b   Poe, Gregory L ^a   Welsh, Michael P ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b ISO New England   (United States)

^c Christensen Associates   (United States)

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EID: 0038335960     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1061656     Document Type: Article

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