The information content of a stated choice experiment: A new method and its application to the value of a statistical life

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 136-151

  Rouwendal, Jan ^a   de Blaeij, Arianne ^b   Rietveld, Piet ^a   Verhoef, Erik ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Stated preferences; Value of a statistical life

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION;

INFORMATION CONTENTS; ITS APPLICATIONS; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; MIXED LOGIT MODELS; STATED CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; STATED PREFERENCES; VALUE OF A STATISTICAL LIVES; VALUE OF STATISTICAL LIVES;

RESEARCH;

ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOGIT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 71549146580     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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