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| Burton, Michael P.; Rigby, Dan; Young, Trevor. |
| Duration Analysis, which allows the timing of an event to be explored in a dynamic framework, is used to model the adoption of organic horticultural technology in the UK. The influence of a range of economic and non-economic determinants is explored using discrete time models. The empirical results highlight the importance of gender, attitudes to the environment and information networks, as well as systematic effects that influence the adoption decision over the lifetime of the producer and over the survey period. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116172 |
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| Gibson, Fiona L.; Burton, Michael P.. |
| Observed and unobserved characteristics of an individual are often used by researchers to explain choices over the provision of environmental goods. One means for identifying what is typically an unobserved characteristic, such as an attitude, is through some data reduction technique, such as factor analysis. However, the resultant variable represents the true attitude with measurement error, and hence, when included into a non-linear choice model, introduces bias in the model. There are well established methods to overcome this issue, which are seldom implemented. In an application to preferences over two water source alternatives for Perth in Western Australia, we use structural equation modeling within a discrete choice model to determine whether... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Contingent valuation; Attitudes; Structural equation modeling; Recycled water; Environmental Economics and Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Q51; Q53; C13. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103428 |
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| Burton, Michael P.; Marsh, Sally P.; Patterson, Josie. |
| The Moore Catchment, which lies to the north of Perth, WA, suffers from a number of problems related to water management. Farmers want to manage salinity and waterlogging problems through the use of drains, but this has negative off-farm impacts on both the environment and flood risk. Views on responsibilities for managing water within the catchment differ between farmers, local communities and government agencies. This paper reports the results from surveys of attitudes towards catchment management, for two community groups: residents of Perth and residents of rural towns in the catchment. A parallel study of farmers has been undertaken but is not reported here. These surveys elicited general attitudes towards the environment and agriculture, and views on... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123616 |
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| Rigby, Dan; Burton, Michael P.; Young, Trevor. |
| The dispute between the US and EU over GM foods at the WTO is examined in terms of the issues it raises about protectionism, environmental protection and precaution. The issue of whether GM, GM Derived and Non-GM foods are equivalent to each other is examined using data from a national choice modelling study in the UK. These categories of food are critical since they underpin the EU's new food labelling regime which it hoped would defuse the WTO dispute. The results are analysed using a Bayesian mixed logit model which allows greater flexibility in the modelling of preference distributions than that allowed through classical estimation. The Bayesian approach allows the use of censored normal and Johnson's SB distributions which can accommodate a bounded... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: GM food; Mixed logit; WTP; Bayesian; WTO; International Relations/Trade; Q51; Q55; Q56; Q58. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25503 |
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| Gibson, Fiona L.; Burton, Michael P.. |
| This report presents an alternative perspective on how respondents consider choice experiment options. Building on the ‘new’ model of consumer demand by Stigler and Becker (1977), the report suggests that the attributes within choice experiments are not valued directly. Rather, they are used to generate higher-level improvement in the environment (‘constructs’). This implies that to achieve the environmental outcome, what are currently viewed as marginal utilities of attributes are in fact marginal utilities mixed with (subjective) marginal productivity of the attribute. The research report also proposes that hierarchical Information integration methods may allow separate identification of the utility and production functions, and the individual... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94889 |
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| Gibson, Fiona L.; Burton, Michael P.. |
| The introduction of measurement bias in parameter estimates into non-linear discrete choice models, as a result of using factor analysis, was identified by Train et al. (1987). They found that the inclusion of factor scores, used to represent relationships amongst like variables, into a subsequent discrete choice models introduced measurement bias as the measurement error associated with each factor score is excluded. This is an issue for non-market valuation given the increase in popularity of including psychometric data, such as primitive beliefs, attitudes and motivations, in willingness to pay estimates. This study explores the relationship between willingness to pay and primitive beliefs through a case study eliciting Perth community values for... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Discrete choice models; Attitudes; Factor analysis; Measurement models; Recycled wastewater. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47943 |
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| Rigby, Dan; Burton, Michael P.. |
| Analyses of data from random utility models of choice data have typically used fixed parameter representations, with consumer heterogeneity introduced by including factors such as the age, gender etc of the respondent. However, there is a class of models that assume that the underlying parameters of the estimated model (and hence preferences) are different for each individual within the sample, and that choices can be explained by identifying the parameters of the distribution from which they are drawn. Such a random parameter model is applied to stated choice data from the UK, and the results compared with standard fixed parameter models. The results provide new evidence of preferences for various aspects of the UK food system, particularly in relation to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Random parameter logit; Choice modelling; GMOs; Food safety; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58200 |
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| McCartney, Abbie; Cleland, Jonelle; Burton, Michael P.. |
| This working paper utilises the choice modelling technique to investigate how information and understanding influences preferences of the general public for conservation of natural environments, specifically the tropical waterways and wetlands of the Kimberley region in Western Australia. The paper forms part of a larger study investigating preference divergence for environmental systems between experts and non-experts. By priming the public with more information about complex environmental problems, one might expect them to form preferences similar to that of experts. A preliminary analysis of public low and high information samples finds that, when birds and plants are the focus of species conservation with respect to the tropical waterways, increased... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95065 |
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| Linh, Pham Thi Ngoc; Burton, Michael P.; Vanzetti, David. |
| Vietnam has negotiated a series of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements and has made significant steps in integrating into the world economy. This integration is likely to have both positive and negative effects on different stakeholders in the economy. This paper seeks to measure the effects on the welfare of Vietnam’s small livestock producers' by linking a household model and the GTAP trade model. A GTAP utility SplitCom is used to separate out pig and poultry prior to several trade liberalisation scenarios being run. A recursive household model with a two-stage LES-AIDS model on consumption side and Cobb-Douglas functions on production side are used. Impacts of likely changes in the prices of inputs and outputs arising from different trade... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6023 |
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| Pluske, Johanna M.; Burton, Michael P.; Rigby, Dan; Vercoe, Philip E.. |
| In Australia, Bos taurus cattle breeds produce high quality meat, superior in taste and tenderness characteristics. Nevertheless, these breeds do not thrive in the Northern Australian environment. Stem cell transplant techniques could improve northern beef cattle breeding programs by facilitating crossbreeding via natural service. Focus groups were used in this study to explore consumer reaction to reproduction technologies and the implications for buying intentions. Findings suggested that consumers may react negatively to unconventional breeding technologies but the degree of this aversion is contingent upon how the technology is described. These findings are relevant for preparation of choice modeling surveys. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Non-market valuation; Consumers; Focus groups; New technologies; Beef. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48167 |
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| Cooper, Bethany; Crase, Lin; Burton, Michael P.. |
| In most urban cities across Australia, water restrictions remain the dominant policy mechanism to restrict urban water consumption. The extensive adoption of water restrictions over several years means that Australian urban water prices have consistently not reflected the opportunity cost of water (Edwards 2008). Given the generally strong political support for water restrictions and the likelihood that they will persist for some time, there is value in understanding householders’ attitudes in this context. More specifically, identifying the welfare gains associated with avoiding urban water restrictions entirely would be a non-trivial contribution to our knowledge. This paper is used to describe the results from a contingent valuation study that... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Urban water restrictions; Water policy; Contingent valuation; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58892 |
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| Rigby, Dan; Burton, Michael P.; Young, Trevor. |
| The dispute between the US and EU over GM foods at the WTO is examined in terms of the issues it raises about protectionism and environmental protection and precaution. The issue of whether GM, GM Derived and Non-GM foods are equivalent to each other is examined using data from a national choice modelling study in the UK. These categories of food are critical since they underpin the EU's new food labelling regime which it hoped would defuse the WTO dispute. The results are analysed using a Bayesian mixed logit model which allows greater flexibility in the modelling of preference distributions. This is particularly crucial where, as in this case, bi-modal distributions are identified with some indifferent or mildly averse to GM foodtypes while others are... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: GM food; Mixed logit; WTP; Bayesian; WTO; International Relations/Trade; C11; C24; C25; D12; Q18. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24447 |
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