Testing the single opt-out reminder in choice experiments An application to fuel break management in Spain

Cheap talk (CT) scripts have been broadly tested in contingent valuation studies to mitigate the effects of hypothetical bias. However, this approach may not fully be adequate when the individual is faced with several choices such as in discrete choice experiments (DCE) because the respondent may te...

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Autores: Varela, Elsa, Mahieu, P. A., Giergiczny, M., Riera, P., Soliño, Mario
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/292151
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/292151
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cheap talk
Discrete choice experiment
Random parameters models
Scale parameters
Wildfires
Willingness to pay
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Sumario:Cheap talk (CT) scripts have been broadly tested in contingent valuation studies to mitigate the effects of hypothetical bias. However, this approach may not fully be adequate when the individual is faced with several choices such as in discrete choice experiments (DCE) because the respondent may tend to forget about the CT script. This paper tests the effects of a single opt-out reminder (SOOR) to lower the hypothetical bias in a DCE dealing with the valuation of social preferences for forest fire prevention programs in Southern Spain. Results show that the inclusion of a SOOR does not contribute sufficiently to improve the CT effect on the DCE data. © 2014 Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå.