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Author : Anna Alberini
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Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Optimal Designs for Discrete Choice Contingent Valuation Surveys written by Anna Alberini and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Joan Kanninen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Optimal Experimental Design for Contingent Valuation Surveys written by Barbara Joan Kanninen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Alberini
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Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Optimal Designs for Discrete Choice Contingent Valuation Surveys written by Anna Alberini and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Nyquist
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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Optimal Designs of Discrete Response Experiments in Contingent Valuation Studies written by Hans Nyquist and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Economic Values and the Environment in the Developing World written by and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overviews the application of economic valuation techniques to environmental problems in less developed countries. Demonstrates the importance of economic valuation in devising sound environmental policies and development initiatives, and gives examples of applications of valuation in various countries. Of interest to environmental economists, project appraisal analysts, policy makers, and graduate students of development and environmental economics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Anna Alberini
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251045275
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Applications of the Contingent Valuation Method in Developing Countries written by Anna Alberini and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture, in addition to producing food, hides and fibre, also provides many other goods and services not priced in the market. These include environmental outputs such as rural amenities and disamenities, but also social and cultural functions. The economic value of these non-market goods and services of agriculture can be assessed by estimating how much purchasing power people would be willing to give up to acquire those outputs if they were forced to make a choice. The contingent valuation method (CVM) is one of the most widely used methodologies developed for the measurement of the value of non-market goods.
Author : Hideo Aizaki
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439890471
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Stated Preference Methods Using R written by Hideo Aizaki and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stated Preference Methods Using R explains how to use stated preference (SP) methods, which are a family of survey methods, to measure people’s preferences based on decision making in hypothetical choice situations. Along with giving introductory explanations of the methods, the book collates information on existing R functions and packages as well as those prepared by the authors. It focuses on core SP methods, including contingent valuation (CV), discrete choice experiments (DCEs), and best–worst scaling (BWS). Several example data sets illustrate empirical applications of each method with R. Examples of CV draw on data from well-known environmental valuation studies, such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. To explain DCEs, the authors use synthetic data sets related to food marketing and environmental valuation. The examples illustrating BWS address valuing agro-environmental and food issues. All the example data sets and code are available on the authors’ website, CRAN, and R-Forge, allowing readers to easily reproduce working examples. Although the examples focus on agricultural and environmental economics, they provide beginners with a good foundation to apply SP methods in other fields. Statisticians, empirical researchers, and advanced students can use the book to conduct applied research of SP methods in economics and market research. The book is also suitable as a primary text or supplemental reading in an introductory-level, hands-on course.
Author : Ian J. Bateman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191530298
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Valuing Environmental Preferences written by Ian J. Bateman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as individuals have preferences regarding the various goods and services they purchase every day, so they also hold preferences regrding public goods such as hose provided by the naural environment. However, unlike provate goods, environmental goods often cannot be valued by direct reference o any market price. Thsi amkes economic analysis of the costs and benefits of environmental change problematic. Over the past few decades a number of methods have developed to address this problem by attempting to value environmental preferences. Principal among hese has been the contingent valuation (CV) method which uses surveys to ask individuals how much they would be willing to pay or willing to accept in compensation for gains and losses of environmental goods. The period from the mid-1980s to the present day has seen a m,assive expansion in use of the CV method. From its originalroots int eh USA, through Europe and the developed world, the method has now reached worldwide application with a substantial proportion of current studies being undertaken in developing countries where environmental services are often the dominating determinant of everyday living standards. The method has simultaneously moved from the realm of pure academic speculation into the sphere of instiutional decision analysis. However, the past decade also witness a developing critique of the CV method with a number of commentators questioning the underlying validity of its dervied valuations. This volume, therefore, reflects a time of heated debate, as wellas from commentators who see it as an interesting experimental tool regardless of the question of absolute validity of estimates. The book embraces the theoritical, methodologicl, empirical, and institutional aspects of the current debate. It covers US, European , and developing country applications, and the institutional frameworks within which CV studies are applied.
Author : Patricia A. Champ
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9400771045
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation written by Patricia A. Champ and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical book with clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket methods. The first chapters of the book provide the context and theoretical foundation of nonmarket valuation along with a discussion of data collection procedures. The middle chapters describe the major stated- and revealed-preference valuation methods. For each method, the steps involved in implementation are laid out and carefully explained with supporting references from the published literature. The final chapters of the book examine the relevance of experimentation to economic valuation, the transfer of existing nonmarket values to new settings, and assessments of the reliability and validity of nonmarket values. The book is relevant to individuals in many professions at all career levels. Professionals in government agencies, attorneys involved with natural resource damage assessments, graduate students, and others will appreciate the thorough descriptions of how to design, implement, and analyze a nonmarket valuation study.
Author : R. Carson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085793628X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Contingent Valuation written by R. Carson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major reference work the first of its kind provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the large and growing literature on contingent valuation. It includes entries on over 7,500 contingent valuation papers and studies from over 130 countries covering both the published and grey literatures. This book provides an interpretive historical account of the development of contingent valuation, the most commonly used approach to placing a value on goods not normally sold in the marketplace. The major fields catalogued here include culture, the environment, and health application. This bibliography is an ideal starting point for researchers wanting to find other studies that have valued goods or used techniques similar to those they are interested in. For those wanting to conduct meta analyses, the book will serve as an invaluable guide to source material. For those wanting to conduct meta analyses, the book will serve as an invaluable guide to source material. In addition to the print edition we offer access, for purchasers of the book, to a website providing the contents of as a searchable Word document and in a variety of standard bibliographic database forms. Contingent Valuation is an indispensable reference source for researchers, scholars and policymakers concerned with survey approaches to the problem of environmental valuation.
Author : Robert Cameron Mitchell
Publisher : Resources for the Future
ISBN 13 : 9780915707324
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Using Surveys to Value Public Goods written by Robert Cameron Mitchell and published by Resources for the Future. This book was released on 1989 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides decision makers, policy analysts, and social scientists, with a detailed discussion of a new techniques for the valuation of goods not traded in prevate markets.
Author : Barbara J. Kanninen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402053134
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Valuing Environmental Amenities Using Stated Choice Studies written by Barbara J. Kanninen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides practical, research-based advice on how to conduct high-quality stated choice studies. It covers every aspect of the topic, from planning and writing the survey, to analyzing results, to evaluating quality. There is no other book on the market today that so thoroughly addresses the methodology of stated choice. Chapters are written by top-notch academics and practitioners in an accessible style, offering practical, tough advice.
Author : Soo-Il Kim
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Temporal Insensitivity, Optimal Bid Design and Generalized Estimation Models in the Contingent Valuation Study written by Soo-Il Kim and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation aims to provide answers to some of issues in dichotomous choice contingent valuation: the temporal structure of willingness to pay, practical guideline for survey design and generalized estimation method. The first essay proposes the temporal willingness to pay (TWTP) as an alternative definition of the present value of willingness to pay. In the survey of contingent valuation, a respondent compares TWTP with the present value of randomly assigned cost. TWTP enables the test for consistency of respondent's valuation with respect to payment schemes. Using a sequential test, the insensitivity of TWTP is tested on the data of oyster reef restoration programs in the Chesapeake Bay. The test result shows that TWTP is insensitive to the offered payment schedule or on the length of the stream of benefits of the project, which implies consistent willingness to pay for the environmental project. However, discount rates estimated from the data vary significantly across project lengths and time span between offered payment schedules. The second essay suggests a practical alternative design named a uniform design, to existing optimal or robust bid designs in contingent valuation. The uniform design draws cost assigned to respondent from a predetermined uniform distribution. Analytics and simulations show that the uniform design has lower bound of efficiency at 84 percent of D-optimum. Simulations demonstrate that the uniform design outperforms optimal designs when initial information is poor and outperforms robust designs when true values of parameters are known. The third essay challenges the theoretical and technical background of the simple logit model. Standard logit model in contingent valuation assumes i.i.d error distribution between initial and proposed states. Relaxing the restrictive assumption in the simple logit model requires a generalized estimation technique that utilizes a Gumbel mixed model. Estimation results show that correlation between two states is usually minimal, but homoskedastic errors are rejected in many cases. Heteroskedasticity or correlation provides willingness to pay estimate different from estimate of the simple logit, thus different policy implication in benefit-cost analysis.
Author : Kenneth Train
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521766559
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation written by Kenneth Train and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the new generation of discrete choice methods, focusing on the many advances that are made possible by simulation. Researchers use these statistical methods to examine the choices that consumers, households, firms, and other agents make. Each of the major models is covered: logit, generalized extreme value, or GEV (including nested and cross-nested logits), probit, and mixed logit, plus a variety of specifications that build on these basics. Simulation-assisted estimation procedures are investigated and compared, including maximum stimulated likelihood, method of simulated moments, and method of simulated scores. Procedures for drawing from densities are described, including variance reduction techniques such as anithetics and Halton draws. Recent advances in Bayesian procedures are explored, including the use of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and its variant Gibbs sampling. The second edition adds chapters on endogeneity and expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms. No other book incorporates all these fields, which have arisen in the past 25 years. The procedures are applicable in many fields, including energy, transportation, environmental studies, health, labor, and marketing.
Author : Emma McIntosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199237123
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Applied Methods of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Health Care written by Emma McIntosh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention. Developed out of a course run by Jordan Louviere at the University of Technology, Sydney, entitled An Introduction to Stated Preference Discrete Choice Modelling it has a particular focus on the use of stated preference survey methods to identify consumer preference data, as well as the use of recent developments incost-effectiveness analysis within a CBA framework. In doing so, the most up to date methodologies for CBA are compiled in a comprehensive manner with the aim of advancing the methodology of CBA in healthcare.ABOUT THE SERIESSeries editors Alastair Gray and Andrew BriggsEconomic evaluation of health intervention is a growing specialist field, and this series of practical handbooks tackles, in depth, topics superficially addressed in more general economics books. Each volume includes illustrative material, case histories and worked examples to encourage the reader to apply the methods discussed, with supporting material provided online. The series is aimed at health economists in academia, the pharmaceutical industry and the health sector, those on advancedhealth economics courses, and health researchers in associated fields.
Author : Stephane Hess
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849507732
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Choice Modelling written by Stephane Hess and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a selection of the best theoretical and applied papers from the inaugural International Choice Modelling Conference. The conference was organised by the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds and held in Harrogate, North Yorkshire on 30 March to 1 April 2009.
Author : David Pearce
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781950968
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Valuing the Environment in Developing Countries written by David Pearce and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The substantial and growing interest in the monetary valuation of preferences for environmental improvement, and against environmental damage, has prompted a demand for case studies illustrating methodologies and applications of valuation techniques. In this book, the first of two volumes, the authors provide detailed case studies of valuation techniques that have been used in developing countries. They demonstrate that valuation works and that it can yield significant insights into policy-relevant issues regarding conservation and economic development. The authors address a whole range of environmental issues under the broad themes of water and air quality, biological diversity and forest functions. The economic approaches covered include contingent valuation, hedonic property prices, travel cost methodologies and benefits transfer. They also go on to look at the idea of extending national accounts to reflect changes in environmental assets. Examples of the varied and interesting case studies include valuing improvements to sanitation in Malaysia, the value of visits to game parks in South Africa and tropical forest values in Mexico. They highlight how valuation techniques can be applied, often with limited resources, to critical development issues. Academics and practitioners of environmental economics will draw great value from this unique and original work, as will the many multilateral and bilateral aid agencies. The book will also prove a valuable addition to graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental economics where there is a need for case material.
