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Whitehead, John C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Ready, Richard C.; Huang, Ju Chin

doi:10.1023/a:1008231430184

Cited by 29 publications

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“…Respondent's decisions for each choice set of the DCE relied on a Likert scale with seven levels of certainty: Definitely will not take classes (1), not likely to take classes (2), somewhat not likely to take classes (3), undecided (4), somewhat likely to take classes (5), likely to take classes (6), and definitely will take classes (7). Using this response format captures more information about the underlying strength of preference/certainty of the respondent, while still maintaining a theoretically and valid construct (Wang, 1997; Whitehead et al, 1998). A potential limitation of this type of ex ante assessment of enrollment intention is that students may indicate they may not enroll, but many students may not follow through with those intentions (e.g., Farrington, 2021).…”

Section: Dce and Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Undergraduate enrollment intentions and willingness‐to‐pay for online to in‐person teaching modalities: Capturing heterogeneity across and within universities in the United States during the pandemic

Bergtold,

Penn,

Boys

et al. 2023

J of Agr & App Econ Assoc

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This study analyzes undergraduate students' enrollment intentions and preferences for alternate teaching modalities during the pandemic under a range of reopening scenarios and flexible teaching modalities to investigate the value of flexible learning options and campus life offerings for students. Using primary survey data from six land‐grant universities, our findings suggest that there is no one‐size‐fits‐all policy for tackling significant shocks like the pandemic. Business‐as‐usual was the most divisive, with wide differences in preferences both within and across universities. These results have important implications for future responses to major disruptions in higher education.

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Section: Dce and Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Undergraduate enrollment intentions and willingness‐to‐pay for online to in‐person teaching modalities: Capturing heterogeneity across and within universities in the United States during the pandemic

Bergtold,

Penn,

Boys

et al. 2023

J of Agr & App Econ Assoc

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“…The DBDC method implies that two different monetary payments are subsequently suggested to survey respondents. The second amount proposed to respondents is contingent on their response to the first proposed monetary payment [42][43][44]. The DBDC technique was adopted for its several advantages.…”

Section: Questionnaire Design and Wtp Elicitation Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The open-ended question asked directly for the maximum WTP after the first two questions of yes/no type. Both elicitation approaches were used to increase construct validity of the WTP estimates [43].…”

Section: Questionnaire Design and Wtp Elicitation Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Renewable Minigrid Electrification in Off-Grid Rural Ghana: Exploring Households Willingness to Pay

Korzhenevych

Owusu

2021

Sustainability

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Renewable energy minigrids hold significant prospects for Africa’s energy sector and its economic development in general. The government of Ghana has established pilot renewable minigrids in five off-grid communities as a testing ground for the electrification of over 600 existing rural communities that cannot be electrified via the national grid. Although there is evidence on willingness to pay (WTP) values for renewable-generated electricity in some developing countries, little is known about households’ WTP for renewable-based electricity in Ghana and, in particular, about renewable minigrids for rural electrification. This paper provides one of the first WTP estimates for renewable-based electricity for rural electrification in a developing economy context such as Ghana. Using data from a contingent valuation survey undertaken in all five pilot renewable minigrid project communities, we found that rural households are willing to pay an average of 30 GHC/month (≈5 USD/month) for high-quality renewable-powered electricity services, which is twice the amount they are currently paying based on the Uniform National Tariffs. The hypothetical bias is addressed by conducting a survey among active users of the minigrids. The starting point bias is reduced by employing random starting bids. The respondents are willing to pay between 9 and 11% of their discretionary incomes to cover the cost of accessing reliable renewable-powered electricity in the rural, off-grid communities in Ghana. The paper concludes by discussing the policy implications of these findings regarding the development of tariff regulations and business models for renewable minigrids in the rural, off-grid sector.

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“…Regarding the hypothetical nature of these techniques, there is one way to validate them: testing their internal consistency by targeting the key elements in the valuation scenarios that guarantee a realistic market simulation. This means testing for construct validity, which includes theoretical and convergent validity (Whitehead, et al, 1995;Whitehead, et al, 1998). Theoretical validity (also termed internal validity) refers to the extent to which the findings of the study (the measure of WTP) are consistent with theoretical predictions and a priori expectations (Schläpfer, 2008); while convergent validity assesses whether two measures of WTP from different methods or choice techniques are correlated and therefore converge to similar estimates (Diamond & Hausman, 1993) 40 .…”

Section: Contingent Valuation and Choice Modellingmentioning

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Economic Valuation of the Ecosystem Services of the Mesoamerican Reef, and the Allocation and Distribution of these Values

Gauna¹,

Markandya²,

Onofri³

et al. 2021

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Coral reefs are one of the most diverse and valuable ecosystems on Earth. The Mesoamerican Reef contains the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere. However, its health is threatened, so there is a need for a management and sustainable conservation. Key to this is knowing the economic value of the ecosystem. “Mainstreaming the value of natural capital into policy decision-making is vital” The value of environmental and natural resources reflects what society is willing to pay for a good or service or to conserve natural resources. Conventional economic approaches tended to view value only in terms of the willingness to pay for raw materials and physical products generated for human production and consumption (e.g. fish, mining materials, pharmaceutical products, etc.). As recognition of the potential negative impacts of human activity on the environment became more widespread, economists began to understand that people might also be willing to pay for other reasons beyond the own current use of the service (e.g. to protect coral reefs from degradation or to know that coral reefs will remain intact in the future). As a result of this debate, Total Economic Value (TEV) became the most widely used and commonly accepted framework for classifying economic benefits of ecosystems and for trying to integrate them into decision-making. This report estimates the economic value of the following goods and services provided by the MAR's coral reefs: Tourism & Recreation, Fisheries, Shoreline protection. To our knowledge, the inclusion of non-use values in the economic valuation of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System is novel, which makes the study more comprehensive.

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Cited by 29 publications

References 18 publications

Undergraduate enrollment intentions and willingness‐to‐pay for online to in‐person teaching modalities: Capturing heterogeneity across and within universities in the United States during the pandemic

Undergraduate enrollment intentions and willingness‐to‐pay for online to in‐person teaching modalities: Capturing heterogeneity across and within universities in the United States during the pandemic

Renewable Minigrid Electrification in Off-Grid Rural Ghana: Exploring Households Willingness to Pay

Economic Valuation of the Ecosystem Services of the Mesoamerican Reef, and the Allocation and Distribution of these Values

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