Accounting for uncertainty in willingness to pay for environmental benefits

RA Daziano, M Achtnicht - Energy Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
Previous literature on the distribution of willingness to pay has focused on its heterogeneity
distribution without addressing exact interval estimation. In this paper we derive and analyze …

Willingness-to-pay for greenhouse gas reductions: A Bayesian investigation of distributional patterns

A Chalak, J Hecht, S Reid, MG Abiad - Environmental science & policy, 2012 - Elsevier
Climate change has been receiving wide attention from the international community. The
UK, like many other countries, has set its target to achieve a 12.5% reduction in levels of six …

A new baseline model for estimating willingness to pay from discrete choice models

RT Carson, M Czajkowski - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We show a substantive problem exists with the widely-used ratio of coefficients approach to
calculating willingness to pay (WTP) from discrete choice models. The correctly calculated …

Estimating households' willingness to pay

R Griffith, L Nesheim - 2010 - econstor.eu
The recent literature has brought together the characteristics model of utility and classic
revealed preference arguments to learn about consumers' willingness to pay. We …

Is the environment a luxury? An empirical investigation using revealed preferences and household production

C Martini, S Tiezzi - Resource and Energy Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper combines demand analysis with household production to estimate the marginal
willingness to pay for improvements in air quality in Italy and the corresponding income …

Willingness to pay for a green energy program: a comparison of ex-ante and ex-post hypothetical bias mitigation approaches

JC Whitehead, TL Cherry - Resource and energy economics, 2007 - Elsevier
The most persistently troubling empirical result in the contingent valuation method literature
is the tendency for hypothetical willingness to pay to overestimate real willingness to pay …

On the effect of the prior of Bayes estimators of the willingness to pay for electric-vehicle driving range

RA Daziano, E Chiew - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2013 - Elsevier
We use Bayes' estimator of a consumer-surplus probit model to study the relevance of the
prior in a discrete choice model. We take random subsamples of varying sizes of stated …

Modeling non-compensatory preferences in environmental valuation

TD Truong, L Wiktor, PC Boxall - Resource and Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
While the compensatory model of choice dominates the environmental valuation literature,
non-compensatory models, where individuals do not tradeoff one attribute for another, are …

Consumers' willingness to pay for renewable energy: A meta-regression analysis

C Ma, AA Rogers, ME Kragt, F Zhang… - Resource and Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
Using renewable energy for domestic consumption has been identified as a key strategy by
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions …

Public preferences for hydrogen buses: comparing interval data, OLS and quantile regression approaches

T O'Garra, S Mourato - Environmental and resource economics, 2007 - Springer
We use a quantile regression (QR) approach to analyse contingent valuation estimates of
public willingness to pay (WTP) for the air and noise pollution reductions associated with the …