Valuing Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Control in Public Forests: Scope Effects with Attribute Nonattendance | Zendy

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Valuing Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Control in Public Forests: Scope Effects with Attribute Nonattendance

Author(s) -

Chris Giguere,

Chris Moore,

John C. Whitehead

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

land economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.961

H-Index - 86

eISSN - 1543-8325

pISSN - 0023-7639

DOI - 10.3368/le.96.1.25

Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , contingent valuation , valuation (finance) , willingness to pay , sample (material) , nonprobability sampling , geography , business , economics , sociology , demography , accounting , computer science , microeconomics , population , chemistry , chromatography , programming language

Sensitivity to the scope of public good provision is an important indication of validity for the contingent valuation method. An online survey was administered to an opt-in nonprobability sample panel to estimate the willingness to pay to protect hemlock trees from a destructive invasive species on federal land in North Carolina. We collected survey responses from 907 North Carolina residents. We find evidence that attribute nonattendance (ANA) is a factor when testing for sensitivity to scope. When estimating the model with stated ANA, the ecologically and socially important scope coefficients become positive and statistically significant, with economically significant marginal willingness-to-pay estimates. (JEL Q51)

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