Abstract
It is well known that some percentage of respondents participating in Stated Preference
surveys will not give responses which reflect their true preferences. One reason is protest
behaviour. If the distribution of protest responses is not independent of respondent
demographics, the elicitation method, the question format, etc., then simply expelling
protesters from surveys will lead to sample selection issues. Furthermore, WTP estimates
will not be comparable across surveys. This paper seeks to explore potential causes of
protest behaviour through a meta-study based on data from 10 different surveys. The
objective of the study is to examine the effect of respondent specific variables as well as
survey specific variables on protest behaviour. Our results suggest that some of the
differences in WTP typically observed between different demographic groups, different
elicitation formats and different question formats might actually be attributed to inherent
differences in the propensity to protest. Our results indicate that the propensity for
respondents to exhibit protest behaviour when asked a stated preference type valuation
question depends on a number of specific factors, respondent specific as well as survey
specific.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2010 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists 2010 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 28 Jun 2010 → 2 Jul 2010 Conference number: 4 |
Conference
| Conference | World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists 2010 |
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| Number | 4 |
| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Montreal |
| Period | 28/06/2010 → 02/07/2010 |