TY - JOUR T1 - Is Willingness to Pay for a Public Good Sensitive to the Elicitation Format? JF - Land Economics JO - Land Econ SP - 162 LP - 173 DO - 10.3368/le.82.2.162 VL - 82 IS - 2 AU - Patricia A. Champ AU - Richard C. Bishop Y1 - 2006/05/01 UR - http://le.uwpress.org/content/82/2/162.abstract N2 - 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) ER -