PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Riccardo Scarpa
AU  - Mara Thiene
AU  - David A. Hensher
TI  - Monitoring Choice Task Attribute Attendance in Nonmarket Valuation of Multiple Park Management Services: Does It Matter?
AID  - 10.3368/le.86.4.817
DP  - 2010 Nov 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 817--839
VI  - 86
IP  - 4
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/86/4/817.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/86/4/817.full
SO  - Land Econ2010 Nov 01; 86
AB  - Land management in Alpine parks provides multifunctional services to separate groups of users. Choice experiments can be used to derive estimates of value for different management attributes. However, little research has been conducted on how frequently respondents ignore attributes used to describe policy management scenarios. We fill this gap using an approach that identifies and compares both serial and choice task attribute nonattendance addressing five different visitor types. Our results indicate that accounting for choice task nonattendance significantly improves model fit and yield estimates of marginal willingness to pay with a more plausible pattern of signs and greater efficiency. (JEL Q24, Q51)