Testing Choice Experiment for Benefit Transfer with Preference Heterogeneity
测试了选择实验方法在环境效益转移中的能力，发现纳入受访者的偏好异质性可降低转移误差，对从事环境价值评估的研究者和政策制定者有参考价值。
Benefit transfer is a cost‐effective method for estimating the value of environmental goods that relies on information obtained in previous studies. The multiattribute approach of choice experiments should provide advantages in terms of benefit transfer, allowing differences in environmental improvements between sites as well as differences in socioeconomic and attitude characteristics between respondent populations. This article investigates the capability of choice experiment method to be used in environmental benefit transfer when a random parameters approach is used to allow for preference heterogeneity: we find that the inclusion of respondents' taste heterogeneity reduces the magnitude of the transfer error.