PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Zawojska, Ewa
AU  - Welling, Malte
AU  - Sagebiel, Julian
TI  - Effects of Varying the Location of Perceived Consequentiality Elicitation in a Discrete Choice Experiment Survey
AID  - 10.3368/le.100.2.040320-0048R1
DP  - 2024 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 223--244
VI  - 100
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/100/2/223.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/100/2/223.full
AB  - Stated preference studies increasingly elicit respondents’ perceptions about survey consequentiality to mitigate hypothetical bias concerns and enhance the validity of value estimates. A typical practice is to ask about these perceptions after preference elicitation. We examine the sensitivity of the perceptions, willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates, and the relationship between them to the perception elicitation location in a discrete choice experiment survey. Our empirical results suggest that the location matters: the perceptions and WTP values are affected. In our data, the self-reported consequentiality is stronger when elicited before, rather than after, the preferences. We discuss implications of the findings for eliciting perceived consequentiality.