Leveraging the unique context of New York City taxi rides, we estimate that passengers are 25 to 30 percentage points more likely to tip a suggested amount when presented an integer tip suggestion. By combining our empirical results with a behavioral model, we find that our results are...

Models of generalized recursive utility are becoming increasingly common as alternatives to discounted expected utility theory. These models have successfully explained many so-called, “anomalies” in field data, but often imply that agents have a preference over the timing of uncertainty...

The remote and iconic Kimberley region, in northern Western Australia, is a contested landscape with growing pressure for different types of future land-use and development. The region has high biodiversity values and impressive scenery that provides attractive wilderness experiences for...

We contribute to the stated preference literature by addressing scale usage heterogeneity regarding how individuals answer attitudinal questions capturing lack of trust in institutions and fairness issues. Using a latent class model, we conduct a contingent valuation study to elicit the...

The soaring economic development of export activities of handicrafts centralized in emerging urban regions in Vietnam has accelerated the increase in the occurrence of diseases and threats to ecosystems induced by water pollution. We design a discrete choice experiment to elicit the...

Discrete mixture (DM) models recognize the presence of heterogeneity across individuals in a given population. In the context of a public land use discrete choice experiment, we use DM models to allow for respondent behavior to probabilistically mix over multiple competing decision paradigms. We...

We assess what drives the lower valuation of nature protection on the other side of the border in two European transboundary nature areas, the Białowieża Forest (Poland and Belarus), and Fulufjället (Norway and Sweden). Applying hybrid choice modelling, we account for people’s attitudes...

Stated preference surveys must provide information on the good to be valued, and respondents must process and recall the information. Previous studies show that the type of information can affect stated preferences and the validity of value estimates, but how respondents process this information...

Scope insensitivity in stated preference studies has been widely debated in empirical literature with mixed evidence. We investigate this in the context of threatened species conservation across Australia by conducting three discrete choice experiments. The choice experiments followed the same...

This article develops a latent class model for estimating willingness-to-pay for public goods using simultaneously contingent valuation (CV) and attitudinal data capturing protest attitudes related to the lack of trust in public institutions providing those goods. A measure of the social cost...