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Water Quality and Management Location: B129 Session Chair: Lusi Xie, University of Georgia | |
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Varying Status Quo Conditions in Stated Preference Surveys: Empirical Evidence for Water Quality University of Saskatchewan, Canada This study examines how current conditions shape people’s preferences for public policies that improve environmental quality. We use a stated preference survey with experimentally varied status quo levels in a setting with a spatially explicit freshwater health score across a wide geographic area. We provide causal evidence that people have a higher willingness to pay when status quo water quality levels are worse. These findings highlight the importance of accurately describing the status quo condition in tated preference studies. This study also provides empirical insights into the monetized economic benefits of landscape-wide water quality improvements in Canada. We find that the public’s willingness to pay for water quality improvements varies by spatial scale and proximity to the policy site. Local improvements in home basins or sub-basins are estimated to have a higher willingness to pay than distant ones. Recreational users have substantially higher willingness to pay, underscoring the joint role of non-use and use values. | |