Socioeconomic adjustments and choice experiment benefit function transfer: Evaluating the common wisdom

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 421-438

  Johnston, Robert J ^a   Duke, Joshua M ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit transfer; Choice modeling; Farmland preservation; Stated preference; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BENEFIT FUNCTION TRANSFER; BENEFIT TRANSFER; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CHOICE MODELING; COVARIATES; STATED PREFERENCES; TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TRADE-OFF; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 77952877411     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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