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USING SURVEYS TO VALUE PUBLIC GOODS THE CONTINGENT VALUATION METHOD Robert Cameron Mitchell Richard T. Carson Resources for the Future 1989 Contents
- 1. Forward
- 2. Preface
- 3. Valuing Public Goods Using the Contingent Valuation Method
- a. The Contingent Valuation Method
- b. Illustrative Scenarios
- c. The Development of the Contingent Valuation Method
- d. This Book
- 4. Theoretical Basis of the Contingent Valuation Method
- a. The Basis of Welfare Economics
- b. Choice of Benefit Measures
- c. Willingness-to-Pay versus Willingness-to-Accept Measures
- d. A New Property Rights Approach
- e. Aggregation Issues
- f. The Private Goods and Political Markets Models
- g. The Implications of Theory for Contingent Valuation Scenario Design
- h. Summary and Conclusions
- 5. Benefits and Their Measurement
- a. Property Rights to Quasi-Private and Pure Public Goods
- b. The Nature of Benefits
- c. Introducing Uncertainty
- d. Methods of Measuring Benefits
- e. The Advantages of the Contingent Valuation Method
- f. Summary and Conclusions
- 6. Variations in Contingent Valuation Scenario Designs
- a. Private Goods markets and Political Markets
- b. Elicitation Methods
- c. Summary and Conclusions
- 7. The Methodological Challenge
- a. Survey Research
- b. Contingent Valuation and Conventional Surveys Compared
- c. Sources of Error in Continent Valuation Studies: An Overview