Sensitivity to scope in contingent valuation – introducing a flexible community analogy to communicate mortality risk reductions

Arbeitspapier

Validity in contingent valuation (CV) is often tested through the sensitivity of estimated willingness to pay (WTP) to the size or quality of a good or service ('more is better' and near proportionality). We investigate the performance of two communication aids (a flexible community analogy and an array of dots) in valuing mortality risk reductions for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Our results do not support the prediction of expected utility theory, i.e. that WTP for a mortality risk reduction increases with the amount of risk reduction (weak scope sensitivity), for any of the communication aids. In fact, the array of dots even shows a decreasing WTP when the risk reduction is larger. We find some evidence that level of education influences how communication aids are perceived. Also, a larger municipal population results in lower WTP which may signal problems with strategic bias.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2/2009

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
• Thema: Contingent valuation ; Willingness to pay ; Validity ; Sensitivity to scope ; Risk communication ; Community analogy ; Cardiac arrest

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Sund, Björn
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Örebro University School of Business
• (wo): Örebro
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/244445
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ