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...

Practitioners of outdoor sports, such as rock-climbers, are likely to exhibit preference heterogeneity that depends on the keenness' with which such sports are practiced. Such an intuition is born out in at least one study using latent class discrete choice modelling (Provencher et al. 2002)....