Economics
Willingness to pay for land preservation across states and jurisdictional scale: Implications for benefit transfer
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In stated preference valuation of farmland preservation, respondents are often told that preservation will occur within various jurisdictional scales - that is, community or state - but are not told the specific location of parcels. The resultant availability of welfare estimates for different scales and regions provides numerous avenues for benefit transfer. This paper provides a systematic assessment of transfer error, contrasting different methods for the transfer of farmland preservation values across states and jurisdictional scales. Results drawn from multistate choice experiments suggest that the choice of across scale versus across state transfer method can have significant implications for transfer validity. © 2009 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
Publication Title
Land Economics
Publication Date
6-11-2009
Volume
85
Issue
2
First Page
217
Last Page
237
ISSN
0023-7639
DOI
10.3368/le.85.2.217
Repository Citation
Johnston, Robert J. and Duke, Joshua M., "Willingness to pay for land preservation across states and jurisdictional scale: Implications for benefit transfer" (2009). Economics. 200.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_economics/200
