• DocumentCode
    1657470
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    Differences between open-ended and dichotomous choice elicitation technologies: A case study in northwest China

  • Author

    Jianguo Liu

  • Author_Institution
    Cold & Arid Regions of Environ. & Eng. Res. Inst.(CAREERI), Chinese Acad. of Sci. (CAS), Lanzhou, China
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    275
  • Lastpage
    278
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    Dichotomous choice and open-ended are two commonly used methods in contingent valuation (CVM). In this paper, both of the methods were used to elicit the farmer´s willingness to pay (WTP) for the irrigation water in Zhangye district, northwest China. We found the dichotomous choice yield higher WTP estimate than open-ended, but the difference is small, which argues for the convergent validity of the valuation exercise. Also, we found there may be yea-saying in dichotomous choice at lower bids, though there is no distinct difference in respondent behavior between the two elicitation methods.
  • Keywords
    cost accounting; Zhangye; contingent valuation method; dichotomous choice elicitation; irrigation water; northwest China; willingness to pay; Education; Materials; Presses; contingent valuation method (CVM); dichotomous choice; northwest China; open-ended; willingness to pay (WTP);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Management Science (ICAMS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6931-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAMS.2010.5553240
  • Filename
    5553240