Consulta: creatorFacets:"Johnston,   Robert J."
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WHO ARE RESOURCE NONUSERS AND WHAT CAN THEY TELL US ABOUT NONUSE VALUES? AN APPLICATION TO COASTAL WETLAND RESTORATION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Opaluch,   James J.; Mazzotta,   Marisa J.; Magnusson,   Gisele.
This paper assesses the potential for incomplete definitions of resource use to influence estimates of nonuser WTP, and whether uses underlying certain use values may escape measurement using standard mechanisms applied to distinguish resource users from nonusers.  Empirical results are drawn from a stated preference analysis involving coastal wetland restoration.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20353

CONTINGENT VALUATION FOCUS GROUPS: INSIGHTS FROM ETHNOGRAPHIC INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Weaver,   Thomas F.; Smith,   Lynn A.; Swallow,   Stephen K.
Despite the many important uses (and potential abuses) of focus groups in survey design, the CV literature presents few guidelines to aid moderators in their interaction with focus group participants.  This paper draws on the theory and practice of ethnographic interviewing to introduce general guidelines that can improve focus groups as an aid to CV research.  The proposed guidelines illustrate types of questions that should reduce speculation and moderator-introduced bias in focus group responses, and improve the correspondence between focus group responses and actual behavior.  The paper illustrates these ethnographic guidelines through a CV application concerning watershed resources.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 1995
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31460

THE INFLUENCE OF SPATIAL LAND USE PATTERNS ON RURAL AMENITY VALUES AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR GROWTH MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM A CONTINGENT CHOICE SURVEY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Bauer,   Dana Marie; Swallow,   Stephen K.
This paper reports on a contingent choice study in which residents of a rural Rhode Island community were asked to express their preferences for packages of growth management outcomes, where surveys presented both spatial and non-spatial attributes of growth management outcomes. Survey results provide insight on the extent to which estimated willingness to pay (WTP) for marginal changes in specific landscape features or land uses may be influenced by spatial considerations.  Results also characterize the potential impact of spatial context on public preferences and WTP for coordinated packages of growth management outcomes. Keywords: Land Use, Spatial, Contingent Choice, Growth Management, Economics, Valuation
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Land Use; Spatial; Contingent Choice; Growth Management; Economics; Valuation; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21766

Is Willingness to Pay for Farmland Preservation Transferable Across States?  Evidence from a Choice Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Duke,   Joshua M.
In stated preference assessments of farmland preservation programs, respondents are often told that preservation will occur within a given scale-e.g., community, state, county-but do not know the specific location of parcels in question.  Hence, welfare estimates may be available for different scales, providing numerous avenues for benefit transfer.  This paper provides a systematic assessment of transfer error, contrasting methods for the transfer of farmland preservation values across states and jurisdictional scales.  The data are drawn from choice experiments conducted simultaneously in two different states and at two different scales.  Results suggest that transfers across state outperform transfers across scale, and that simpler methods often...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9965

FORECASTING SUPPORT FOR RURAL LAND USE POLICIES:  THE ROLE OF PREFERENCE ASYMMETRIES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.
This paper explores the extent to which preference asymmetries occur in Likert-scale indicators of support or opposition to rural land use policies, and implications for methods used to model policy support.  Data are drawn from responses to the Rhode Island Rural Land Use Survey.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22156

Systematic Influences of Policy Implementation and Conservation Agents on Willingness to Pay for Land Preservation
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Duke,   Joshua M.; Johnston,   Robert J.
Economists frequently assess willingness to pay (WTP) for land preservation outcomes independent of information regarding policy implementation. The public, however, may not only be concerned with the consequences of land management, but also may have systematic preferences for policy procedures applied to achieve management goals.  This paper examines relationships between WTP for land preservation outcomes and attributes of the policy process, considering stated preferences for farm and forest preservation in two Northeastern states.  The approach departs from traditional welfare assessments in that it does not constrain attributes of the policy process to be utility-neutral.  Results indicate that utility is influenced by policy process attributes, even...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21234

Willingness to Pay for Water Quality Improvements in the United States and Canada: Considering Possibilities for International Meta-Analysis and Benefit Transfer
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Thomassin,   Paul J.
This paper presents a multinational meta-analysis estimated to identify systematic components of willingness to pay for surface water quality improvements, developed to support benefit transfer for Canadian policy development. Metadata are drawn from stated preference studies that estimate WTP for water quality changes affecting aquatic life habitats—a type of study with few Canadian examples. The goals of this paper are to assess the properties of a multinational (United States/Canada) meta-analysis compared to a single-country (U.S.) analog; illustrate the potential information that may be derived as well as the analytical challenges; and assess the performance of resulting meta-functions for benefit transfer.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Meta-regression analysis; Stated preference; Water quality; Willingness to pay; Benefit cost analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59341

A Battle of Taste and Environmental Convictions for Ecolabeled Seafood:  A Choice Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Roheim,   Cathy A.; Johnston,   Robert J.
This paper describes a choice experiment addressing preferences for ecolabeled seafood, in which the experimental design allows for choices among various fresh seafood products.  The primary emphasis is the potential trade-off between taste (i.e., a favored species) and the presence of an ecolabel, when multiple seafood products are available.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19357

Systematic Variation in Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Land Preservation and Implications for Benefit Transfer: A Meta-Analysis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kukielka,   Jessica B.; Johnston,   Robert J.; Duke,   Joshua M.
Despite prior studies examining willingness to pay for farmland preservation there has been no quantitative, systematic analysis of findings across the literature. This paper presents the first statistical meta-analysis of farmland preservation values. Results confirm systematic variations in willingness to pay, with value surfaces corresponding to theoretical expectations. Findings also provide significant insight into the potential for valid meta-analytic, function based benefit transfer. Results suggest, for example, that transfer validity is critically dependent on jurisdictional scale. Transfer errors are modest for community scale farmland preservation, but large for state scale preservation policies in which per acre welfare estimates are small.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6121

STATED PREFERENCES AND LENGTH OF RESIDENCY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES:  ARE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION VALUES HETEROGENEOUS?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Swallow,   Stephen K.; Bauer,   Dana Marie.
Newer residents of rural, urban-fringe communities are often assumed to have preferences for the development and conservation of rural lands that differ from those of longer-term residents.  The existing literature offers little to verify or quantify presumed preference shifts. This paper provides a systematic, quantitative examination of whether stated preferences for development and conservation tradeoffs differ according to length of residency in a rural community, and explores implications of these findings for assumptions regarding development and conservation preferences.  Results are based on stated preferences estimated from a multi-attribute contingent choice survey of Rhode Island rural residents.  Heterogeneity-according to length of town...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19683

Optimizing Farmland Preservation Choices Across Communities and Jurisdictional Scales: To What Extent are Amenity Values and Selection Criteria Transferable?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Duke,   Joshua M.; Kukielka,   Jessica B.
This paper assesses the potential for function based benefit transfer to inform farmland preservation policy, with emphasis on distinctions between welfare estimation and policy prioritization. Data are drawn from a parallel choice experiments implemented in six communities and statewide in Connecticut. The analysis provides a range of empirical results of potential significance for policy, but two findings are of particular relevance. First, results suggest that transfer errors in WTP for farmland preservation are comparable to those found in other policy contexts, even across similar sites. Results also suggest, however, that welfare based policy rankings are strongly correlated across sites, even when dollar denominated transfer errors are substantial....
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q24; Q51.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6243

Validating Hypothetical Surveys Using Binding Public Referenda: Implications for Stated Preference Valuation
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Joglekar,   Deepak P.
This study presents a criterion validity test in which stated choices are compared to subsequent binding referendum votes.  The study is distinguished by identical hypothetical and actual choice contexts, and results that show no evidence of hypothetical bias. Results suggest a number of possibilities for amelioration of hypothetical bias.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19519

Context Similarity and the Validity of Benefits Transfer: Is the Common Wisdom Correct?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.
Choice experiments are designed to account for variations in environmental resources and site characteristics, as well as potential implications of these variations for willingness to pay.   This may render choice experiment results highly suitable for benefits transfer.  It is unclear, however, whether the flexibility of choice experiments renders the similarity of study and transfer sites less critical for transfer validity.  Drawing from identical choice experiments conducted in different Rhode Island communities, this model assesses the extent to which error in function-based benefits transfer is related to the similarity of communities across a variety of observable dimensions.  Results suggest that site similarity, at least across some dimensions,...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21221

Farmland Preservation and Differential Taxation: Evaluating Optimal Policy Under Conditions of Uncertainty
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.
Differential property tax policy for farmland is often set under conditions of uncertainty and limited information regarding landowners' objective functions. This study examines optimal differential tax policy for a parcel of agricultural land facing uncertain development, identifying instances in which common farmland taxation policies may be non-optimal. Optimal tax rates are characterized given three possible causes of uncertain development: exogenous offers from developers, tax-related reductions in landowner wealth, and a combination of these factors. Model results indicate that underlying causes of uncertain development are critical when seeking to assess the optimality of differential taxation policies, and the use of a single, time-invariant...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31621

Valuing Farmland Protection with Choice Experiments That Incorporate Preference Heterogeneity: Does Policy Guidance Depend On the Econometric Fine Print?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Bergstrom,   John C.
Although mixed logit models are common in stated preference applications, resulting welfare estimates can be sensitive to minor changes in specification. This can be of critical relevance for policy and welfare analysis, particularly if policymakers are unaware of practical implications. Drawing from an application to agricultural conservation in Georgia, this paper quantifies the sensitivity of welfare estimates to common variations in mixed logit specification and assesses practical implications for policy guidance.  Results suggest that practitioners may wish to reevaluate modeling and reporting procedures to reflect the welfare and policy implications of common but often unnoticed variations in model specification.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Willingness to Pay; Conservation Easement; PACE; Mixed Logit; Stated Preference; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Q24; Q51.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61140

MEASURING CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR ECOLABELED SEAFOOD:  AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Roheim,   Cathy A.; Donath,   Holger; Asche,   Frank.
An analysis of consumer preferences for seafood labeled with information about environmental production attributes is introduced into the food labeling literature.  International seafood ecolabeling programs have proposed to create market-based incentives for fisheries managers to promote sustainable fisheries.  We investigate differences in consumer preferences for ecolabeled seafood across the United States and Norway.  Using a contingent-choice telephone survey of random households in each nation, a wide range of factors is found to influence consumers' likelihood of purchasing ecolabeled seafood.  Consumer preferences differ by price premium, species, consumer group, and certifying agency.  The effect of these factors often differs between the United...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31157

A Battle of Taste and Environmental Convictions for Ecolabeled Seafood: A Contingent Ranking Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Roheim,   Cathy A.
Consumers face pressure from environmental groups to modify their seafood purchase decisions based on concerns about fisheries' production practices. Existing research provides little information indicating whether seafood consumers are willing to change purchasing behavior based on a product's environmental attributes, to the exclusion of other attributes. We describe a contingent ranking experiment addressing preferences for fresh seafood, allowing for choices among different species, some displaying an ecolabel. Results suggest consumers consider overfishing sufficiently important to contemplate changing the species of fish they buy; however, they are unwilling to choose a less-favored species based solely on the presence of an ecolabel.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Conjoint; Contingent ranking; Ecolabel; Seafood; Stated preference; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8617

Preferences for Residential Development Attributes and Support for the Policy Process: Implications for Management and Conservation of Rural Landscapes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Swallow,   Stephen K.; Bauer,   Dana Marie; Anderson,   Christopher M.
The rural public may not only be concerned with the consequences of land management; residents may also have systematic preferences for policy instruments applied to management goals. Preferences for outcomes do not necessarily imply matching support for the underlying policy process. This study assesses relationships among support for elements of the policy process and preferences for management outcomes. Preferences are examined within the context of alternative proposals to manage growth and conserve landscape attributes in southern New England. Results are based on (a) stated preferences estimated from a multi-attribute contingent choice survey of rural residents, and (b) Likert-scale assessment of strength of support for land use policy tools....
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31346

Characterizing Spatial Pattern in Ecosystem Service Values when Distance Decay Doesn’t Apply: Choice Experiments and Local Indicators of Spatial Association
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johnston,   Robert J.; Ramachandran,   Mahesh; Schultz,   Eric T.; Segerson,   Kathleen; Besedin,   Elena Y.
Stated preference analyses commonly impose strong and unrealistic assumptions in response to spatial welfare heterogeneity. These include spatial homogeneity or continuous distance decay. Despite their ubiquity in the valuation literature, global assumptions such as these have been increasingly abandoned by non-economics disciplines in favor of approaches that allow for spatial patchiness. This paper develops parallel methods to evaluate local patchiness and hot spots in stated preference welfare estimates, characterizing relevant patterns overlooked by traditional approaches.  The analysis draws from a choice experiment addressing river restoration. Results demonstrate shortcomings in standard treatments of spatial heterogeneity and insights available...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Willingness to Pay; Hot Spot; Stated Preference; Ecosystem Service; Valuation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103374