Economic Valuation of the Environment: How Citizens Make Sense of Contingent Valuation Questions
采用定性方法研究人们如何理解全球环境公共物品的条件价值评估问题，发现许多受访者并未按预期理解评估任务，但仍会给出货币估计。
<i>This study adopts a qualitative approach in order to investigate how people make sense of contingent valuation (CV) questions of a global environmental amenity. The objective is not only to capture people’ s motivations and considerations of willingness to pay (WTP), but also to determine if they adequately comprehend an economic valuation of such public goods. The findings indicate that a large proportion of respondents do not interpret the valuation task, as intended. However, this lack of understanding is not always expressed, unless probed in relation to the elicitation question, and some people have the tendency to provide monetary estimates anyway, whatever meaning they attach to these.</i>