Data from a choice experiment on the community’s preferences for water quality improvements in streams was used to assess the effect of using a fixed status quo versus people’s perceived status quo on willingness to pay values. More than 50% of respondents perceived the quality of water in...

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...