Two identical open-ended contingent valuation surveys assessing willingness-to-pay for better protection against flooding were administered in 2005 and 2010 at the same site. The 2010 survey was administered to the same respondents as those interviewed in 2005 as well as to new participants....

A common assumption within the meta-analysis and benefit transfer literature is that the validity of benefit predictions depends on the utility-theoretic consistency of welfare measures in underlying source studies. However, to date there exists little evidence as to the empirical relevance of...

We develop a nonparametric approach to meta-analysis and use it to identify modeling decisions that affect benefit transfer errors. The meta-data describe the results from 31 empirical studies testing the convergent validity of benefit transfers. They evaluated numerous methodological...

Various attempts have been made to amalgamate the concepts of intrinsic value and ecosystem services, often with a stop-over at the economic concept of existence value. These attempts are based on a confusion of concepts, however. In this article, two types of non-use values are distinguished:...

Meta-regression analysis is a statistical summary or synthesis of a body of evidence. However, when primary studies provide more than one estimate, the presence of dependence in the metadata has implications for the statistical efficiency of estimated moderator variables. Previous meta-analyses...