What do respondents bring to contingent valuation? A comparison of monetary and labour payment vehicles

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 253-267

  Vondolia, Godwin Kofi ^a,b   Eggert, Håkan ^a   Navrud, Ståle ^c   Stage, Jesper ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

contingent valuation; experience; num raires; payment vehicles; Q51; Q56

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006683811     PISSN: 21606544     EISSN: 21606552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21606544.2014.892034     Document Type: Article

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