Table 1

Primary studies used in the analysis of willingness to pay for ecosystem conservation.

Primary study (year of publication)Survey YearElicitation formataNiAdjusted WTP2010b
MeanSDMinMax
Adamowicz et al. (1998) 1995DCCV; CE2175.97054.065137.740214.200
Caparros et al. (2008) 2003CE; CR765.66490.6860.742219.343
Czajkowski et al. (2009) 2007CE75.1884.5782.43315.455
Farber and Griner (2000) 1996CR889.44951.9137.644169.413
Garber-Yonts et al. (2004) 1999DCCV: CE15133.241121.16944.501480.349
Garrod and Willis (1997)c1995CR1628.66715.4458.63847.301
Hagen et al. (1992) 1992DCCV2365.58054.268327.207403.954
Hailu et al. (2000) 1995DCCV; CE4141.809105.63665.241291.004
Hanley et al. (2006) 2001CE824.26217.2009.12950.237
Holmes et al. (2004) 2003DCCV621.18327.5211.29263.710
Kramer et al. (2004) 1991DCCV237.35111.68329.09045.612
Lehtonen et al. (2003) 2002DCCV;CE4158.30175.96266.188246.001
Loomis (1987) 1985DCCV2156.246108.50579.521232.970
Loomis (1996) 1995DCCV395.38710.15184.418104.449
Loomis et al. (2000) 1998DCCV1337.1160337.116337.116
Macmillan et al. (2001) 1995DCCV629.0748.94920.12844.449
Meyerhoff et al. (2009) 2004CE1711.3697.7354.39330.997
Mueller et al. (2013) 2011DCCV2184.7629.727177.884191.640
Ovaskainen and Kniivila (2005) 2000DCCV387.13235.36447.346114.988
Siikamaki and Layton (2007) 1999CR; DCCV262.91316.77751.05074.776
Weber and Stewart (2009) 2006DCCV; CE753.68954.1837.939169.382
Wilson et al. (2010) 2006CR; DCCV371.98672.64416.509154.212
All  12770.86887.8450.742480.349
a

DCCV (dichotomous choice contingent valuation); CE (choice experiment); CR (contingent ranking). Ni = Number of observations taken from primary study j.

b

WTP expressed in 2010 prices based on country-specific CPI followed by conversion into purchasing power parity US dollars using Penn PPI. The Penn PPI was obtained from: Alan Heston, Robert Summers and Bettina Aten, Penn World Table Version 7.1, Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices at the University of Pennsylvania, July 2012. http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php

c

Reported WTP estimates for Garrod and Willis (1997) were scaled up 100%, prior to purchasing power adjustment, due to reported marginal WTP at 1% increments. The scaling ensured consistency with WTP estimates from other primary studies.

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