Construct Validity of Averting Cost Measures of Environmental Benefits

Laughland, Andrew; Musser, Wesley N.; Shortle, James S.; Musser, Lynn M.

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“…Quantitative measures of constructs have been used in psychometrics, to measure psychological attributes and aptitudes (see, for example, Patterson, 1990); in education, to measure educational achievement and ability (see, for example, Forsythe et al, 1986); in public health, to measure variables such as cognitive health (see, for example, Wallace and Herzog, 1995); in public administration, to measure public service motivation (see, for example, Perry, 1996); in economics, to measure contingent valuation and averting costs (see, for example, Laughland et al, 1996); and in political science and sociology to measure concepts of governance such as democracy, corruption, and political attitudes and perceptions (see, for example, Faber, 1987;Elkins, 2000;Johnston, 2000). All of these have been concerned with the issue of construct validity: the question of whether the measures in fact measure what they claim.…”

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What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?

2009

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As policymakers and researchers focus more on the question of the impact of governance in economic development, they have required measures of the quality of governance to set policy or to conduct analyses. A number of measures of the quality of governance have been created. Among these are the Worldwide Governance Indicators, which rank countries on six aspects of 'good governance'. Critics have focused on problems of bias or lack of comparability that raise questions about the utility of these indicators. However, a more fundamental question is that of whether the indicators have 'construct validity' -whether they measure what they purport to measure. This paper considers the construct validity of the indicators and raises the question of whether researchers and policymakers are relying on wrong data, rather than poor data.Les responsables politiques et les chercheurs ont besoin de mesures concre`tes de la qualite´de la gouvernance afin de pouvoir de´terminer l'impact de celle-ci, en particulier par rapport au de´ve-loppement e´conomique. Un certain nombre d'indicateurs ont re´cemment e´te´cre´e´s, parmi lesquels les Indicateurs de gouvernance dans le monde de la Banque Mondiale, qui classent les pays a`partir de six crite`res de ) bonne gouvernance *. L'utilite´de ces indicateurs a e´te´mise en question pour des raisons de distorsion ainsi que des proble`mes de manque de comparabilite´. Cependant, une question plus fondamentale est celle de la validite´the´orique de ces indicateurs, c'est-a`-dire, s'ils mesurent ce qu'ils pre´tendent mesurer. Cet article conside`re la validite´conceptuelle de ces indicateurs et cherche ad e´terminer dans quelle mesure les chercheurs et les responsables politiques ne sont pas en train de se baser sur des donne´es fausses, plutoˆt que des donne´es insuffisantes.

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What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?

2009

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“…So-called "convergent" construct validity is sometimes also assessed [e.g. by assessing the correspondence between averting costs and WTP estimates, as in Laughland et al (1996)]. Alternately it is sometimes possible to compare WTP inferences from respondents' expressed voting preference and estimated WTP, as in Berrens et al (1998), and between WTP estimates obtained from different elicitation methods (see Whitehead et al 1998).…”

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Distributional Preferences and the Incidence of Costs and Benefits in Climate Change Policy

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Cameron

Gerdes

2010

Environ Resource Econ

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“…A first group of studies have analyzed households' WTP for reducing the concentration of bacteria or contaminating industrial pollutants to the public standard for drinking water quality (Harrington, Krupnick and Spofford, 1989;Abdalla, Roach and Epp, 1992;Laughland et al 1996;Dupont, 2005). For example, averting behavior decisions were used to approximate the economic costs to households in a South Eastern Pennsylvania community affected by groundwater contamination in the late eighties (Abdalla, Roach and Epp, 1992).…”

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“…(c) Laughland et al (1996) estimate WTP for reducing the contaminating pollutant (the parasite Giardia lamblia) to the public drinking water standard levels in the USA. They use a telephone survey.…”

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What are Households Willing to Pay for Better Tap Water Quality? A Cross-Country Valuation Study

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We estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for better quality of tap water on a unique cross-section sample from 10 OECD countries. On the pooled sample, households are willing to pay 7.5% of the median annual water bill to improve the tap water quality. The highest relative WTP for better tap water quality was found in the countries with the highest percentage of respondents being unsatisfied with tap water quality because of health concerns. The expected WTP increased with income, education, environmental concern, and health and taste concerns with the tap water.

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Construct Validity of Averting Cost Measures of Environmental Benefits

Cited by 35 publications

References 7 publications

What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?

What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?

Distributional Preferences and the Incidence of Costs and Benefits in Climate Change Policy

What are Households Willing to Pay for Better Tap Water Quality? A Cross-Country Valuation Study

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