On the use of honesty priming tasks to mitigate hypothetical bias in choice experiments

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1136-1154

  De Magistris, Tiziana ^a   Gracia, Azucena ^a   Nayga Jr , Rodolfo M ^b,c  

^a Agrifood Institute of Aragón IA2   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Honesty priming; Hypothetical bias; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; VALUATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84888323369     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aat052     Document Type: Article

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