Elicitation of valid statements of contingent value requires survey participants who are familiar with the environmental resource change. A primary purpose of the contingent market must be to assure familiarity by providing information. Information about resource quality is important when...

In this paper we consider the effects of negative and positive risk information on perceived seafood risks and seafood consumption by gender and race. The data is from a Mid-Atlantic survey of coastal seafood consumers. We elicit risk perceptions in three risk scenarios with a dichotomous choice...

Despite a robust literature on nonmarket valuation of cultural assets, serious validity concerns remain.  We address this by estimating a demand model for a regional concert series.  We survey concertgoers during and then again after the concert season to gather ex ante and ex post stated...