Evaluating the performance of different willingness to pay question formats for valuing environmental restoration in rural China
Evaluating the performance of different willingness to pay question formats for valuing environmental restoration in rural China
X.Z.ongMin; Loomis, J.; Zhang ZhiQiang; Hamamura, K.
Environment and Development Economics 11(5): 585-601
2006
This paper compares protest rates and willingness to pay (WTP) using a payment card versus single and double bounded voter referendum contingent valuation question formats. To compare the WTP question formats, the study valued a proposed watershed restoration programme for the Ejina oasis in Inner Mongolia Province, China. There were 695 respondents in the payment card treatment and 457 in the dichotomous choice treatment.