Choosing Between Internet and Mail Survey Modes for Choice Experiment Surveys Considering Non-Market Goods

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 591-610

  Olsen, Søren Bøye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Internet; Random parameter error component logit; Survey mode effect; WTP

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INTERNET;

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CONTINUED USE; ECONOMIC VALUATION; ESTIMATION PRECISION; INTERNET SURVEY; RANDOM PARAMETERS; RESPONSE RATE; SURVEY MODES;

SURVEYS;

DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; INTERNET; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MARKET SYSTEM; MOTORWAY;

EID: 72249118608     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-009-9303-7     Document Type: Article

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