We believe that Gowdy et al. (2010), in their recent essay in Conservation Biology, do a disservice to the cause of increased understanding between economists and conservation professionals. They give the impression that economists and the economic theory and models they use are much more naive...

The objective of this study was to test for the effect of consequentiality on the probability of a respondent opting out of voting in a stated preference survey. We find that respondents who believe the survey is inconsequential are more likely to opt out than to vote ‘yes’ in both...

Desvousges, Mathews, and Train (2016) have provided a comment on our 2013 paper in which we discuss Hausman's (2012) critique of the contingent valuation (CV) method. In their introduction, Desvousges, Mathews, and Train state that they will compare quotes from our paper to “current CV...