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The evidence for hypothetical bias over uncertain outcomes is reviewed. Consistent with the evidence for deterministic …
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This simple classroom experiment demonstrates the existence of starting point bias. Asked to place a dollar value on a … large value is originally suggested. This experiment can be used in theory classes to demonstrate the limits of individual …
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Selectivity bias caused by protest responses in Contingent Valuation studies can be detected and corrected by means of … effect of protest responses would cause an upwards bias of the final estimates of WTP …
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This paper uses a meta-analysis to explore the relationship between hypothetical bias and the price respondents are … actual payment conditions. Since the bias increases for larger dollar amounts, any simple guidelines, such as NOAA's "divide …
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testing and correcting for unit and item nonresponse bias in contingent valuation survey data. When sample nonresponse and … selection bias go uncorrected, welfare measures may be overestimated or underestimated contributing to potential errors in …
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skewness. Since a comprehensive theory of hypothetical bias has not been developed, we use a set of explanatory variables based … bias. Results are quite sensitive to model specification, which will remain a problem until a comprehensive theory of … reports the results of a meta-analysis of hypothetical bias in 28 stated preference valuation studies that report monetary …
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Evidence of Illusion of Control - the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events - is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to no support. In this paper we test whether this dissonant result across disciplines is due to the...
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The sample selection model is based upon a bivariate or a multivariate structure, and distributional assumptions are in this context more severe than in univariate settings, due to the limited availability of tractable multivariate distributions. While the standard FIML estimation of the...
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-survey experiment to investigate how knowledge of party positions affects policy choices. We followed standard procedures in developing … an attribute-based choice experiment on alternative land-use policies in Switzerland. In contrast to the usual … ; choice experiment ; contingent valuation ; landscape ; heuristics ; information ; preference formation ; public goods …
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