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Accounting for Attribute Non-Attendance in Three Previously-Published Choice Studies of Coastal Resources

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  • Petrolia, Daniel R.
  • Hwang, Joonghyun

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We revisit three recently-published papers that apply discrete-choice experiment methods to coastal and marine ecosystem goods and services, in light of attribute non-attendance (AN-A). We find that accounting for AN-A does not always improve model fit, but when it does, the improvement can be substantial. Estimated price and attribute coefficients change, but these changes do not follow a consistent pattern, either in direction or magnitude. Mean attribute increment value (i.e., willingness to pay, WTP) estimates change, but also with no discernible pattern. However, in several cases, generally in those cases where accounting for AN-A improves model fit, we observe substantial improvements in the confidence intervals on WTP, i.e., accounting for AN-A appears to produce much more precise WTP estimates. In short, we find that accounting for AN-A is not always warranted, but when it is, the key payoff appears to be more precise WTP estimates.

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  • Petrolia, Daniel R. & Hwang, Joonghyun, 2019. "Accounting for Attribute Non-Attendance in Three Previously-Published Choice Studies of Coastal Resources," Working Papers 292344, Mississippi State University, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:misswp:292344
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.292344
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    1. Tanga Mohr & John C. Whitehead, 2023. "External Validity of Inferred Attribute NonAttendance: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment with Real and Hypothetical Payoffs," Working Papers 23-05, Department of Economics, Appalachian State University.

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