Protester or non-protester: A binary state? On the use (and non-use) of latent class models to analyse protesting in economic valuation

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 438-454

  Meyerhoff, Jürgen ^a   Bartczak, Anna ^b   Liebe, Ulf ^c,d  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Forest biodiversity; Latent class analysis; Protest beliefs; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONTINGENT VALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MODELING; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84862727999     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2012.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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