PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Johnston, Robert J.
AU  - Duke, Joshua M.
TI  - Willingness to Pay for Land Preservation across States and Jurisdictional Scale: Implications for Benefit Transfer
AID  - 10.3368/le.85.2.217
DP  - 2009 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 217--237
VI  - 85
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/85/2/217.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/85/2/217.full
SO  - Land Econ2009 May 01; 85
AB  - In stated preference valuation of farmland preservation, respondents are often told that preservation will occur within various jurisdictional scales—that is, community or state—but are not told the specific location of parcels. The resultant availability of welfare estimates for different scales and regions provides numerous avenues for benefit transfer. This paper provides a systematic assessment of transfer error, contrasting different methods for the transfer of farmland preservation values across states and jurisdictional scales. Results drawn from multistate choice experiments suggest that the choice of across scale versus across state transfer method can have significant implications for transfer validity. (JEL Q24, Q51)