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Does One Size Really Fit All? Ecological Endpoint Heterogeneity in Stated Preference Welfare Analysis

Anne Kejser Jensen, Robert J. Johnston and Søren B. Olsen
Land Economics, August 2019, 95 (3) 307-332; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.95.3.307

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