Grantee Research Project Results
Improving Willingness-to-Accept Responses Using Alternate Forms of Compensation
EPA Grant Number: R824687Title: Improving Willingness-to-Accept Responses Using Alternate Forms of Compensation
Investigators: Mansfield, Carol , Huber, Joel , Van Houtven, George L.
Institution: Duke University , Desert Research Institute
Current Institution: Desert Research Institute , Duke University
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: October 1, 1995 through April 1, 1997
Project Amount: $51,402
RFA: Valuation and Environmental Policy (1995) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Environmental Justice
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.
Publications and Presentations:
Publications have been submitted on this project: View all 1 publications for this projectSupplemental Keywords:
valuation, contingent valuation, public opinion, survey, willingness to accept, economics, public policy, compensation framework, risk tradeoffs., RFA, Economic, Social, & Behavioral Science Research Program, Scientific Discipline, Economics, decision-making, Ecology and Ecosystems, Economics & Decision Making, Social Science, alternative compensation, compensation, contingent valuation, ecosystem valuation, policy analysis, social psychology, surveys, risk reduction, social impact analysis, valuation, decision analysis, environmental assets, incentives, property values, valuing environmental quality, economic incentives, environmental values, preference formation, willingness to accept, environmental policy, community-based, models, psychological attitudes, public values, social resistance, noxious facilities, public policy, stated preferenceProgress and Final Reports:
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.