PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Champ, Patricia A. AU - Bishop, Richard C. TI - Is Willingness to Pay for a Public Good Sensitive to the Elicitation Format? AID - 10.3368/le.82.2.162 DP - 2006 May 01 TA - Land Economics PG - 162--173 VI - 82 IP - 2 4099 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/82/2/162.short 4100 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/82/2/162.full SO - Land Econ2006 May 01; 82 AB - This study uses actual payments toward the provision of a public good to compare dichotomous choice and payment card formats. The public good in question is the environmental improvement from wind generation of electric power. We find that willingness-to-pay estimates vary with the elicitation format. Based on this result, we argue that elicitation effects found in contingent valuation studies may not be due the hypothetical nature of decision-making, as has been suggested in previous studies. (JEL H41, Q51)