Valuing water quality improvements in the United States using meta-analysis: Is the glass half-full or half-empty for national policy analysis?

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 206-228

  Van Houtven, George ^a   Powers, John ^b   Pattanayak, Subhrendu K ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit transfer; Meta analysis; Meta regression analysis; Water quality valuation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BENEFIT TRANSFER; META-ANALYSIS; NATIONAL POLICY;

WATER QUALITY;

META-ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VALUATION; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER QUALITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548216217     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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