A meta-study investigating the sources of protest behaviour in stated preference surveys
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A meta-study investigating the sources of protest behaviour in stated preference surveys. / Meyerhoff, Jürgen; Mørkbak, Morten Raun; Olsen, Søren Bøye.
In: Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2014, p. 35-57.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - A meta-study investigating the sources of protest behaviour in stated preference surveys
AU - Meyerhoff, Jürgen
AU - Mørkbak, Morten Raun
AU - Olsen, Søren Bøye
N1 - Published online 26 June 2013
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - It is a well-known empirical finding that some percentage of respondents participating in Stated Preference surveys will not give responses that reflect their true preferences. One reason is protest behaviour. If the distribution of protest responses is not independent of respondent or survey characteristics, then simply expelling protesters from surveys can lead to sample selection bias. Furthermore, WTP estimates will not be comparable across surveys. This paper seeks to explore potential causes of protest behaviour through a meta-study based on full datasets from 38 different surveys. The objective of the study is to examine the effect of respondent specific variables as well as survey specific variables on protest behaviour. Our results suggest that some of the differences in WTP typically observed between different demographic groups, different elicitation formats and different question formats might actually be attributed to inherent differences in the propensity to protest. Our results indicate that the propensity for respondents to exhibit protest behaviour when asked a stated preference type valuation question depends on a number of specific factors, respondent specific as well as survey specific—knowledge which could be used in order to reduce protest behaviour.
AB - It is a well-known empirical finding that some percentage of respondents participating in Stated Preference surveys will not give responses that reflect their true preferences. One reason is protest behaviour. If the distribution of protest responses is not independent of respondent or survey characteristics, then simply expelling protesters from surveys can lead to sample selection bias. Furthermore, WTP estimates will not be comparable across surveys. This paper seeks to explore potential causes of protest behaviour through a meta-study based on full datasets from 38 different surveys. The objective of the study is to examine the effect of respondent specific variables as well as survey specific variables on protest behaviour. Our results suggest that some of the differences in WTP typically observed between different demographic groups, different elicitation formats and different question formats might actually be attributed to inherent differences in the propensity to protest. Our results indicate that the propensity for respondents to exhibit protest behaviour when asked a stated preference type valuation question depends on a number of specific factors, respondent specific as well as survey specific—knowledge which could be used in order to reduce protest behaviour.
KW - Hierarchical logistic regression
KW - Mixed effects
KW - Protest behaviour
KW - Stated preferences
KW - Survey design
KW - Willingness to pay
U2 - 10.1007/s10640-013-9688-1
DO - 10.1007/s10640-013-9688-1
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84897964809
VL - 58
SP - 35
EP - 57
JO - Environmental and Resource Economics
JF - Environmental and Resource Economics
SN - 0924-6460
IS - 1
ER -
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