External Validity of Contingent Valuation: Comparing Hypothetical and Actual Payments
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External Validity of Contingent Valuation: Comparing Hypothetical and Actual Payments.
Whilst contingent valuation is increasingly used in economics to value benefits, questions remain concerning its external validity that is do hypothetical responses match actual responses? We present results from the first within sample field test. Whilst Hypothetical No is always an Actual No, Hypothetical Yes exceed Actual Yes responses. A constant rate of response reversals across bids/price...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1057-9230
DOI: 10.1002/hec.3436