Web Survey Bibliography
For 20 years the debate about clean air regulation has centered on acid rain and the controversy about acid rain in the Adirondack Park, which covers some six million acres in New York State. But until now policymakers have never had an estimate of the economic value of improvements to the park to New York State residents. Our five-year study quantifies the change in total economic value (the sum of use and nonuse value) that would result from an improvement in the ecological attributes of the Adirondack Park that could be expected to follow from policies currently under consideration, such as Clear Skies. To obtain these estimates a contingent valuation survey was administered to a random sample of New York State residents through the Internet, Web TV, and mail.
Our preferred estimates of the mean willingness to pay (WTP) using the base case characterization of ecological improvements range from $48 to $107 per year per household in New York State. The alternative scope case scenario yields mean WTP ranging from $54 to $159 per year per household. Multiplying these population-weighted estimates by the approximate number of households in the state yields benefits ranging from about $336 million to $1.1 billion per year. The instrument passes an external scope test and a test of sensitivity to bid, both of which are important measures of validity for stated preference studies.
The results of this study help complete the two-decade-long project of integrated assessment across natural and social sciences, resulting in economic estimates that can be used to guide policymaking to address the ecological effects of acid rain in North America. The values above exceed cost estimates of reducing SO2 and NOx emissions from power plants subject to the Clear Skies initiative if the cost share is determined according to the share of these emissions actually being deposited in the park.
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Web survey bibliography - 2004 (99)
- Questionnaire Design: How to Plan, Structure and Write Survey Material for Effective Market Research...; 2013; Brace, I.
- A study on tolerable waiting time: how long are Web users willing to wait?; 2004; Nah, F. F.-H.
- Snowball Sampling ; 2004; Berg, S.
- Usability Testing to Evaluate Computer-Assisted Instruments; 2004; Hansen, S. E.; Couper, M. P.
- Tips and Tricks for Raking Survey Data (a.k.a. Sample Balancing); 2004; Battaglia, M. P.; Izrael, D.; Hoaglin, D.C; Frankel, M. R.
- The Art & Science of Interpreting Market Research Evidence; 2004; Fletcher, J.; Smith, D.
- Statistical Design for Research; 2004; Kish, L.
- Results of an On-Line Survey of Patients with Hereditary Angioedema; 2004; Huang, S.-W.
- Understanding the effect of prizes on response rates; 2004; Porter, S. R., Whitcomb, M. E.
- Multiple surveys of students and survey fatigue; 2004; Porter, S. R., Whitcomb, M. E., Weitzer, W. H.
- Conducting longitudinal studies; 2004; Bauer, K. W.
- A Typology of Research Methods Within the Social Sciences; 2004; Beissel-Durrant, G.
- The Economist/YouGov Internet Presidential poll.; 2004; Fiorina, M., Krosnick, J. A.
- Using an access panel as a sampling frame for voluntary household surveys. Experiences from a pilot...; 2004; Korner, T., Nimmergut, A.
- Understanding the question-answer process; 2004; Bradburn, N. M.
- The illusion of public opinion: Fact and artifact in american public opinion polls; 2004; Bishop, G. F.
- On the primacy of affect in attitude-behavior research; 2004; Thomas, R. K., Schofield, C. M.
- Measuring expectations; 2004; Manski, C. F.
- Item response theory modelling for questionnaire evaluation; 2004; Reeve, B. B., Masse, L.
- Examining expert reviews as a pretest method; 2004; DeMaio, T., Landreth, A.
- EFAMRO - Quality standards for access panel - QSAP; 2004
- Developmnent and testing of web questionnaires; 2004; Baker, R. P., Crawford, S. D., Swinehart, J.
- An experiment in call scheduling; 2004; Cunningham, P., Martin, D., Brick, J. M.
- A Comparison of multi-Item Likert and Visual Analogue Scales for the assessment of transactionally defined...; 2004; Flynn, D., van Schaik, P., van Wersch, A.
- When the Ethic is Functional to the Method: The Case of E-Mail Qualitative Interviews; 2004; Olivero, N., Lunt, P.
- Virtual Research Ethics: A Content Analysis of Surveys and Experiments Online; 2004; Peden, B. F., Flashinski, D. P.
- How to conduct behavioral research over the Internet: A begginer s guide to HTML and CGI/Perl; 2004; Fraley, R. C.
- Propensity Score Adjustment As an Alternative Weighting Scheme for Web Survey Data; 2004; Lee, Su.
- The Prevalence of Wireless Substitution; 2004; Luke, J. V., Blumberg, S. J., Cynamon, M. C.
- The Impact of Wireless Substitution on Random-Digit-Dialed Health Surveys; 2004; Blumberg, S. J., Luke, J. V.
- Is It the Young and the Restless Who Only Use Cellular Phones?; 2004; Steeh, C. G.
- Cell Phone Owners and Usage Patterns; 2004; Tuckel, P. S., O’Neill, H.
- Will a "Perfect Storm" of Cellular-Linked Forces Sink RDD Sampling?; 2004; Lavrakas, P. J.
- A New Era for Telephone Surveys; 2004; Steeh, C. G.
- Web Search Savvy: Strategies and Shortcuts for Online Research; 2004; Friedman, B. G.
- Can Internet Surveys be Used for Social Surveys? : Results of an Experimental Study; 2004; Honda, N., Motokawa, A.
- Cooperation and Community on the Internet: Past Issues and Present Perspectives for theoretical-empirical...; 2004; Matzat, U.
- Response and Field Period Effects: The Effect of Time in Online Market Research and Consequences for...; 2004; Basso Larsen, R., Rathod, S.
- Statistical Estimation Methods in Volunteer Panel Web Surveys; 2004; Lee, Su.
- Instrument Design for a Blaise Multimode Web, CATI, and Paper Survey; 2004; Pierzchala, M., Wright, D., Wilson, Cl., Guerino, P.
- Design and Application of On-line Questionnaries: Experiences from Micronesia; 2004; O'Neill, J. G., Spennemann, D. H. R.
- Valuation of Natural Resource Improvements in the Adirondacks; 2004; Banzhaf, S., Burtraw, D., Evans, D., Krupnick A.
- Response latency as an indicator of optimizing. A study comparing job applicants and job incumbents...; 2004; Callegaro, M., Yang, Y., Bhola, D. S., Dillman, D. A.
- Fundamentals of Marketing Research; 2004; Smith, S. M., Albaum, G.
- Do print and Web surveys provide the same results?; 2004; Huang, H.-M.
- Will Web Surveys Ever Become Part of Mainstream Research?; 2004; Schonlau, M.
- Online or Not Online? A Comparison of Offline and Online Surveys Conducted in the Context of 2002 German...; 2004; Faas, T.
- Recruitment for online access panels; 2004; Goeritz, A.
- Does Voice Matter? An Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Experiment; 2004; Couper, M. P., Singer, E., Tourangeau, R.
- No calibration required. Expanding the use of on-line research for new initiatives; 2004; Rogers, G., Dierckx, J.-H.