Modeling Response Incentive Effects in Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Data

Anna Alberini*, Barbara Kanninen**, and Richard T. Carson

UCSD Economics Discussion Paper 97-07
February 1997

Abstract

This paper introduces model specifications that can be used to explain response incentive effects that might occur with discrete response contingent valuation data when follow-up responses are collected. The models allow for possible random response shocks, structural shifts in willingness to pay between payment questions and heteroskedasticity between and within responses. Three well-known contingent valuation survey datasets that include follow-up payment questions are used to empirically test the models.

* University of Colorado, Boulder
** University of Minnesota, Minneapolis


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