The effect of respondent experience/knowledge in the elicitation of contingent values: An investigation of convergent validity, procedural invariance and reliability

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-33

  Mccollum, Daniel W ^a   Boyle, Kevin J ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Dichotomous choice; Experience; Open ended; Use values; Validity

Indexed keywords

INVARIANCE; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING;

CONVERGENT VALIDITY; OPEN-ENDED RESPONSES; PROCEDURAL INVARIANCE;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

CONTINGENT VALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 15044346136     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-004-0758-2     Document Type: Article

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