Referendum models and negative willingness to pay: alternative solutions

TC Haab, KE McConnell - Journal of environmental economics and …, 1997 - Elsevier
Traditional referendum models of contingent valuation with linear utility functions and
additive errors have troubled researchers because they routinely predict negative …

The effect of protest votes on the estimates of WTP for use values of recreational sites

E Strazzera, M Genius, R Scarpa… - … and resource economics, 2003 - Springer
Contingent valuation studies are often characterized by a considerable number of protest
responses, which may cause selectivity bias on the final estimates for WTP. Sample …

Willingness to pay for voluntary climate action and its determinants: Field-experimental evidence

J Diederich, T Goeschl - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2014 - Springer
The determinants of individual, voluntary climate action (VCA) in combating climate change
and its potential scale are frequently debated in public but largely underresearched. We …

Modelling zero values and protest responses in contingent valuation surveys

E Strazzera, R Scarpa, P Calia, GD Garrod… - Applied …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
In contingent valuation surveys the category of zero bidders refers to individuals that are not
willing to pay anything for the programme under analysis. Specific questions can help to …

Willingness to pay for health insurance: An analysis of the potential market for new low-cost health insurance products in Namibia

E Gustafsson-Wright, A Asfaw, J van der Gaag - Social science & medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
This study analyzes the willingness to pay for health insurance and hence the potential
market for new low-cost health insurance product in Namibia, using the double bounded …

Can community health insurance schemes shield the poor against the downside health effects of economic reforms? The case of rural Ethiopia

A Asfaw, J Von Braun - Health policy, 2004 - Elsevier
Using household level data and double-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation
method, the article investigates the prospect of community health insurance schemes in …

Accounting for negative, zero and positive willingness to pay for landscape change in a national park

N Hanley, S Colombo, B Kriström… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In contingent valuation, despite the fact that many externalities manifest themselves as costs
to some and benefits to others, most studies restrict willingness to pay to being non …

Assessing forest management strategies using a contingent valuation approach and advanced visualisation techniques: A Portuguese case study

L Madureira, LC Nunes, JG Borges… - Journal of Forest …, 2011 - Elsevier
The assessment of alternative forest management strategies should account not only for the
private benefits to forest landowners but also for the ecological, environmental and …

Modelling willingness to pay responses from dichotomous choice contingent valuation surveys with zero observations

SH Yoo, SJ Kwak, TY Kim - Applied Economics, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Modelling household behaviour with the data from dichotomous choice contingent valuation
(DCCV) surveys is often complicated by zero willingness to pay (WTP) responses in the …

Use of spike models in measuring consumers' willingness to pay for non-GM oil

W Hu - Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2006 - cambridge.org
In this paper, Chinese consumers' preferences and their willingness to pay (WTP) for non-
genetically modified (GM) vegetable oil were elicited by a payment card approach. In …