Andersson, Henrik, Hammitt, James K., Lindberg, Gunnar and Sundström, Kristian (2013) Willingness to Pay and Sensitivity to Time Framing: A Theoretical Analysis and an Application on Car Safety. Environmental and Resource Economics, 56 (3). pp. 437-456.

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Identification Number : 10.1007/s10640-013-9644-0

Abstract

Stated preference (SP) surveys attempt to obtain monetary values for non-market goods that reflect individuals’ “true” preferences. Numerous empirical studies suggest that monetary values from SP studies are sensitive to survey design and so may not reflect respondents’ true preferences. This study examines the effect of time framing on respondents’ willingness to pay (WTP) for car safety. We explore how WTP per unit risk reduction depends on the time period over which respondents pay and face reduced risk in a theoretical model and by using data from a Swedish contingent valuation survey. Our theoretical model predicts the effect to be nontrivial in many scenarios used in empirical applications. In our empirical analysis we examine the sensitivity of WTP to an annual and a monthly scenario. Our theoretical model predicts the effect from the time framing to be negligible, but the empirical estimates from the annual scenario are about 70 % higher than estimates from the monthly scenario.

Item Type: Article
Language: English
Date: November 2013
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Car safety, Contingent valuation, Time frame, Willingness to pay
JEL Classification: C52 - Model Evaluation and Selection
D6 - Welfare Economics
I1 - Health
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2014 17:36
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 15:48
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:27261
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/15653

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