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IMPROVING WILLINGNESS-TO-ACCEPT RESPONSES USING ALTERNATE FORMS OF COMPENSATION
Description:
The purpose of this project is to design a pilot survey to investigate why surveys that ask willingness-to-accept compensation questions so often yield unreliable data and whether respondents would find alternate modes of compensation (specifically, public goods) more acceptable. The study will include both a theoretical discussion of why individuals may react negatively to offers of cash compensation and empirical results from the survey testing the hypothesis that individuals will prefer public goods as compensation and that the responses to public good compensation questions will be more stable than the responses to cash compensation questions. The survey will focus primarily on the problem of determining the proper level of compensation for host communities when siting noxious facilities. Information from the pilot survey will be used to try and improve willingness-to-accept surveys and the siting process for noxious facilities.