Information Use and Its Effects on the Valuation of Agricultural Genetic Resources
研究了信息使用如何影响人们对不熟悉的农业遗传资源的偏好和估值，发现社会人口和态度变量影响信息使用，但信息组之间规模无显著差异。
This article examines the effects of information on stated preferences for an unfamiliar environmental good: agricultural genetic resources. We define two groups of respondents based on their use of additional information, and we model information use and its effect on individual preferences and scale. Our findings indicate that sociodemographic and attitudinal variables affect the use of information. We observe individual preference heterogeneity but no significant differences in scale between the information groups. The results highlight the importance of genetic resource conservation and controlling for the effects of information use in choice experiment models for unfamiliar goods.