Several major environmental statutes enacted in the 1970s designate resource management agencies as trustees of the natural resources on behalf of the public, and enable the trustees to recover damages for injuries to public resources from releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil. The standard measure of damages in the various statutes is the cost of restoring the resources to bas...

Transportation researchers have recently introduced a stated-preference (sp) method in which the attributes of the sp alternatives are based on the choice that the respondent made in a real-world setting. This practice can enhance the realism of the sp task and the efficacy of preference revelation. However, the practice creates dependence between the sp attributes and unobserved factors, contr...

Over the past two decades, hundreds of stated preference studies have been conducted in less-developed countries. This article examines what has been learned on the methodological front from stated preference research, and it summarizes the empirical evidence from stated preference studies about household preferences in lessdeveloped countries. The main conclusion is that households’ willingnes...

background : the present study aimed to provide better insight on methodological issues related to time preference studies, and to estimate private and social discount rates, using a rigorous systematic review and meta-analysis. methods : we searched pubmed, embase and proquest databases in june 2013. all studies had estimated private and social time preference rates for health outcomes through...

This paper introduces a variant of choice experiment valuation designed to ameliorate common limitations related to a lack of ecological clarity in stated preference survey scenarios. This approach, which we call BioindicatorBased Stated Preference Valuation (BSPV), is distinguished by guidelines that inform the structure and use of ecological indicators to define policy scenarios in valuation ...

INTRODUCTION Stated preference studies for cancer screening programs are used to understand how the programs can be improved to maximize usage. Our objectives were to conduct a systematic review of stated preference studies for cancer screening, identify gaps in the literature, and determine which types of research should be conducted in the future. METHODS We considered all studies in the Pu...