Land Economics articles from May 1997

Land Economics archives from May 1997

Temporal reliability of estimates from contingent valuation.
May 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION Over the past two decades the use of contingent valuation (CV) in policy analysis and academic research has grown rapidly. According to one estimate there are now almost two thousand studies in the literature dealing with CV...

Global warming: when to bite the bullet.
May 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION The accumulation of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides, and chloroflurocarbons) and the prospect of global climate change has spawned a broad research program to identify, model, and determine the impact...

The welfare effects of toxic contamination in freshwater fish.
May 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION It has long been known that fish are storehouses of various kinds of toxic contaminants that run off into oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams. These toxic contaminants can pose a significant health hazard to anyone eating...

Measuring the difference in mean willingness to pay when dichotomous choice contingent valuation responses are not independent.
May 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION The high costs associated with collecting primary data, coupled with a need for within-sample comparisons of Hicksian surplus values, frequently lead researchers to include several contingent valuation (CV) questions in a...