Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80293 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CSERGE Working Paper EDM No. 06-18
Publisher: 
University of East Anglia, The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), Norwich
Abstract: 
We extend the contingent valuation (CV) method to test three differing conceptions of individuals' preferences as either: (i) a-priori well-formed or readily divined and revealed through a single dichotomous choice question (as per the NOAA CV guidelines; Arrow et al., 1993]; (ii) learned or 'discovered' through a process of repetition and experience [Plott, 1996; List, 2003]; (iii) internally coherent but strongly influenced by some initial arbitrary anchor [Ariely et al., 2003]. Findings reject both the first and last of these conceptions in favour of a model in which preferences converge towards standard expectations through a process of repetition and learning.
Subjects: 
coherent arbitrariness
Contingent valuation
discovered preferences
learning
Preference formation
JEL: 
D6
D12
Q51
C51
Q18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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