Eliciting willingness to pay without bias: Evidence from a field experiment

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 525, 2008, Pages 114-137

  Blumenschein, Karen ^a   Blomquist, Glenn C ^a   Johannesson, Magnus ^b   Horn, Nancy ^c   Freeman, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^c American Pharmacy Services Corporation

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 37748999933     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02106.x     Document Type: Article

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