PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Patricia A. Champ
AU  - Richard C. Bishop
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)