Relating environmental attitudes and contingent values: How robust are methods for identifying preference heterogeneity?

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 757-775

  Aldrich, Gwendolyn A ^a   Grimsrud, Kristine M ^a   Thacher, Jennifer A ^a   Kotchen, Matthew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Contingent valuation; Latent class analysis; New Ecological Paradigm; Unobservable heterogeneity; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; NEW ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM; UNOBSERVABLE HETEROGENEITY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTINGENT VALUATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HETEROGENEITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 34447542358     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-006-9054-7     Document Type: Article

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