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      Experimental designs for environmental valuation with choice-experiments: A Monte Carlo investigation

      Ferrini, Silvia; Scarpa, Riccardo
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      Ferrini, S. & Scarpa, R. (2005). Experimental designs for environmental valuation with choice-experiments: A Monte Carlo investigation. (Department of Economics Working Paper Series, Number 8/05). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1642
      Abstract
      We review the practice of experimental design in the environmental economics literature concerned with choice experiments. We then contrast this with advances in the field of experimental design and present a comparison of statistical efficiency across four different experimental designs evaluated by Monte Carlo experiments. Two different situations are envisaged. First, a correct a priori knowledge of the multinomial logit specification used to derive the design and then an incorrect one. The data generating process is based on estimates from data of a real choice experiment with which preference for rural landscape attributes were studied. Results indicate the D-optimal designs are promising, especially those based on Bayesian algorithms with informative prior. However, if good a priori information is lacking, and if there is strong uncertainty about the real data generating process - conditions which are quite common in environmental valuation - then practitioners might be better off with conventional fractional designs from linear models. Under misspecification, a design of this type produces less biased estimates than its competitors.
      Date
      2005-12
      Type
      Working Paper
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      Department of Economics Working Paper Series
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      8/05
      Publisher
      Department of Economics, University of Waikato
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