Beattie, Jane, Covey, Judith, Dolan, Paul, Hopkins, Lorraine, Jones-Lee, Michael, Loomes, G., Pidgen, Nick, Robinson, Angela and Spencer, Anne (1998) On the contingent valuation of safety and the safety of contingent valuation: part 1-caveat investigator. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 17 (1). pp. 5-26. ISSN 0895-5646
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This article reports the results of two studies aimed at testing and refining a procedure for estimating willingness to pay based monetary values of safety using the contingent valuation method. In spite of the fact that respondents were given the opportunity to discuss various safety issues and key concepts in focus group meetings held in advance of individual interviews, and were also given ample opportunity to revise their responses in the light of the overall pattern of these responses, the results show clear evidence of extensive and persistent insensitivity to the scale and scope of the safety improvements that were specified in the contingent valuation questions, as well as vulnerability to framing effects. This clearly casts serious doubt on the reliability and validity of willingness-to-pay based monetary values of safety estimated using conventional contingent valuation procedures.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.springerlink.com/content/0895-5646/ |
| Additional Information: | © 1998 Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J17 - Value of Life; Forgone Income |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2011 09:54 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 22:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33037 |
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