Incentive Incompatibility and Starting-Point Bias in Iterative Valuation Questions: Comment

Authors

David M. Aadland
Arthur J. Caplan, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Land Economics

Volume

80

Issue

2

Publication Date

2004

First Page

312

Last Page

315

Abstract

In a recent study, Whitehead (2002) proposes incentive-incompatibility and starting-point-bias tests for iterative willingness-to-pay questions. We show that if restrictions associated with the nature of starting-point bias are not imposed on the estimation, one obtains inconsistent estimates of the structural parameters and may draw inaccurate conclusions regarding the extent of incentive incompatibility and starting-point bias in contingent-valuation survey data.

Recommended Citation

Aadland, David M., and Arthur J. Caplan. (2004) "Incentive Incompatibility and Starting-Point Bias in Iterative Valuation Questions: Comment." Land Economics, 80(2), 312-315.