PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tobias Börger
AU  - Tenaw G. Abate
AU  - Margrethe Aanesen
AU  - Ewa Zawojska
TI  - Payment and Policy Consequentiality in Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation: Experimental Design Effects on Self-Reported Perceptions
AID  - 10.3368/le.97.2.407
DP  - 2021 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 407--424
VI  - 97
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/2/407.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/2/407.full
SO  - Land Econ2021 May 01; 97
AB  - Although the contingent valuation literature emphasizes the importance of controlling for respondents’ consequentiality perceptions, this literature has rarely accounted for the difference between payment and policy consequentiality. We examine the influence of a randomly assigned tax amount on consequentiality self-reports and their potential endogeneity using data from a single dichotomous choice survey about reducing marine plastic pollution in Norway. Results show that consequentiality perceptions are a function of the tax amount, with payment consequentiality decreasing and policy consequentiality increasing with higher tax amounts. We discuss the challenge of finding valid instruments to address the potential endogeneity of consequentiality perceptions.