Public Opinion on Colorado Water Rights Transfers: Are Policy Preferences Consistent with Concerns over Impacts?
We evaluate Coloradans' preferences for policies decreasing the need for agricultural water transfers using two choice experiments with different framesÑone highlighting policy choices and one emphasizing ex post impacts on prices, urban landscaping, and base charges. We find that a majority of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Western Agricultural Economics Association
2018-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
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| Online Access: | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276502 |
| Summary: | We evaluate Coloradans' preferences for policies decreasing the need for agricultural water transfers using two choice experiments with different framesÑone highlighting policy choices and one emphasizing ex post impacts on prices, urban landscaping, and base charges. We find that a majority of users state a willingness to face private costs to reduce agricultural water transfers. Latent-class analysis is used to describe heterogeneity in opinion groups, showing that a minority of urban, lower-income participants would prefer to fallow agricultural land than to pay for alternative policies. This opinion group increases in size in the impact-framed survey. |
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| ISSN: | 1068-5502 2327-8285 |