Agricultural support payments are a significant position in public budgets, and the legitimacy of such payments is subject to continuing debate, The legitimacy rests on the social acceptance of citizens for support payments to farmers, which is the focus of this study, Social acceptance is...

We define a simple criterion for assessing the plausibility of Willingness to Pay (WTP) estimates obtained from discrete choice experiments. The criterion compares WTP for the bundle of attributes yielding the highest utility with a threshold value related to the highest level of the cost...

Discrete choice experiments are an important method to derive willingness-to-pay estimates for non-market goods. Several studies have shown that willingness-to-pay estimates derived from discrete choice experiments can be sensitive to the order of the presented choice tasks or the size of the...

The Brazilian agricultural commodities market and the agribusiness sector are facing an increasing international demand for improved environmental standards, such as those regarding climate change and biodiversity loss. Although there are many studies on the structural determinants of...

Discrete choice experiments can be used to inform policy makers on people's preferences for landscapes and cultural ecosystem services. Recent studies have shown that the spatial context influences preferences and related willingness to pay values. In this paper we investigate the effect of the...

Discrete choice experiments can be used to inform policy makers on people's preferences for landscapes and cultural ecosystem services. Recent studies have shown that the spatial context influences preferences and related willingness to pay values. In this paper we investigate the effect of the...