Title :
Notice of Retraction
Differences between open-ended and dichotomous choice elicitation technologies: A case study in northwest China
Author_Institution :
Cold & Arid Regions of Environ. & Eng. Res. Inst.(CAREERI), Chinese Acad. of Sci. (CAS), Lanzhou, China
Abstract :
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Dichotomous choice and open-ended are two commonly used methods in contingent valuation (CVM). In this paper, both of the methods were used to elicit the farmer´s willingness to pay (WTP) for the irrigation water in Zhangye district, northwest China. We found the dichotomous choice yield higher WTP estimate than open-ended, but the difference is small, which argues for the convergent validity of the valuation exercise. Also, we found there may be yea-saying in dichotomous choice at lower bids, though there is no distinct difference in respondent behavior between the two elicitation methods.
Keywords :
cost accounting; Zhangye; contingent valuation method; dichotomous choice elicitation; irrigation water; northwest China; willingness to pay; Education; Materials; Presses; contingent valuation method (CVM); dichotomous choice; northwest China; open-ended; willingness to pay (WTP);
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Management Science (ICAMS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6931-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICAMS.2010.5553240
