Comparing Choice Question Formats for Evaluating Natural Resource Tradeoffs.
Choice questions are increasingly being used to scale competing natural resource programs. Respondents choose between two alternatives with varying levels of program characteristics and costs. Complexity in the choice task can increase the randomness (variance) in the choices and the estimation of p...
| Published in: | Land Economics Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 298 - 315 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
May 2002
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