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Karen E. Jacowitz
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 4
Citations - 1490
Karen E. Jacowitz is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Willingness to pay & Contingent valuation. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 1434 citations.
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Measures of Anchoring in Estimation Tasks
TL;DR: In this article, the anchors are set at predetermined percentiles of the distribution of estimates in the calibration group (15th and 85th percentiles in this study), which permits the transformation of anchored estimates into percentiles, allowing pooling of results across problems, and provides a natural measure of the size of the effect.
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Referendum contingent valuation, anchoring, and willingness to pay for public goods
TL;DR: This article found that psychometric anchoring effects, rather than incentive effects, are the likely cause of results commonly found in contingent valuation studies, and that the currently popular single referendum elicitation format is highly vulnerable to anchoring.
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Stated Willingness to Pay for Public Goods: A Psychological Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare economic and psychological analyses of contingent valuation and describe a study in which respondents indicated their willingness to pay to prevent or to remedy threats to public health or to the environment, attributed either to human or to natural causes.
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Referendum Contingent Valuation, Anchoring, and Willingness to Pay for Public Goods
TL;DR: This paper found that psychometric anchoring effects, rather than incentive effects, are the likely cause of results commonly found in contingent valuation studies, and that the currently popular single referendum elicitation format is highly vulnerable to anchoring.