Attribute Specific Impacts of Stated Non-Attendance in Choice Experiments

Mohanty, Suva Kanta and Balcombe, Kelvin and Bennett, Richard and Nocella, Giuseppe and Fraser, Iain M (2018) Attribute Specific Impacts of Stated Non-Attendance in Choice Experiments. Journal of Agricultural Economics, . ISSN 0021-857X. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12311) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Abstract

In this paper, we generalize existing approaches to the treatment of stated attribute non-attendance data in discrete choice experiments by allowing attribute specifc impacts. We implement this ap- proach by employing an extended hierarchical Bayes logit model specifcation. To illustrate this approach, we consider data collected to examine Indian consumers preferences for traditional aro- matic rice varieties. Our results regarding stated attribute non-attendance reveal that, our new approach shrinks marginal utilities of non-attenders substantially compared to stated attenders, with signifcant di¤erences in the shrinkage between some of the attributes. In addition, our results reveal the way in which non-attendance of attributes interact with each other and the impact that this has on the distribution of willingness to pay estimates.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled keywords:	Discrete choice experiment, stated attribute non-attendance, aromatic rice
Divisions:	Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User:	Iain Fraser
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2019 16:00 UTC
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2019 16:04 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/71715 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)