PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fredrik Carlsson
AU  - Mitesh Kataria
AU  - Elina Lampi
TI  - Do EPA Administrators Recommend Environmental Policies That Citizens Want?
AID  - 10.3368/le.87.1.60
DP  - 2011 Feb 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 60--74
VI  - 87
IP  - 1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/87/1/60.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/87/1/60.full
SO  - Land Econ2011 Feb 01; 87
AB  - We investigate whether Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator recommendations regarding improvements in environmental quality differ from citizen preferences. This is done by conducting identical choice experiments on both citizens and administrators at the EPA. The administrators were asked to choose the alternatives they would recommend as a policy, while the citizens were asked to act as private persons. We find that the rankings of attributes differ between the two groups and that the willingness to pay (WTP) obtained from the choices made by the administrators is higher for five out of the seven attributes, and in some cases the difference between the WTPs is substantial. (JEL D61, Q58)