@article{7e832ba8eb9e405ea23034ace253623d,
title = "Willingness-to-volunteer and stability of preferences between cities: Estimating the benefits of stormwater management",
abstract = "Urbanization strains existing stormwater systems, yielding high flood rates, degraded urban aquatic habitat, and low water quality in lakes and rivers. Cities increasingly rely on green infrastructure stormwater solutions that can be maintained in part by volunteers. This paper uses a choice experiment survey in two major U.S. cities – Chicago, Illinois and Portland, Oregon – to estimate the benefits of stormwater management improvement in terms of stated willingness to pay (WTP) money and willingness to volunteer (WTV) time. We find that stormwater management can produce large bundles of benefits. Estimates of WTP are largely (though not comprehensively) stable across cities, but WTV for several benefits is higher in Portland. Finally, while people are willing to volunteer time for some amenities consistent with time valued at 1/3 the average wage rate, a person's WTV time is not correlated with their own wage rate and people appear to gain positive utility from volunteering.",
keywords = "Aquatic habitat, Chicago, Choice experiment, Flooding, Portland, Stormwater management, Value of time, Water quality, Willingness to pay, Willingness to volunteer",
author = "Ando, {Amy W.} and Cadavid, {Catalina Londo{\~n}o} and Netusil, {Noelwah R.} and Bryan Parthum",
note = "Funding Information: This research is based in part on work funded by the Illinois Water Resource Center, USDA-NIFA Multistate Hatch W3133 Grant #1008843; the Bernard Goldhammer Grant for Research on Economics and Natural Resources and the Miller and Mintz Funds for Economics, Reed College; and ULTRA-EX, NSF award #0948983. We thank Cameron Nilles and Mani Rouhi Rad for research assistance. We received valuable comments from two anonymous referees, Roger von Haefen, Maggie Skenderian and Marie Walkiewicz at the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, Hal Sprague at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago, and Sean Weidel with the City of Chicago. Funding Information: This research is based in part on work funded by the Illinois Water Resource Center, USDA- NIFA Multistate Hatch W3133 Grant #1008843 ; the Bernard Goldhammer Grant for Research on Economics and Natural Resources and the Miller and Mintz Funds for Economics, Reed College; and ULTRA-EX, NSF award #0948983 . We thank Cameron Nilles and Mani Rouhi Rad for research assistance. We received valuable comments from two anonymous referees, Roger von Haefen, Maggie Skenderian and Marie Walkiewicz at the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services , Hal Sprague at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago, and Sean Weidel with the City of Chicago. Appendix A Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Authors",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/j.jeem.2019.102274",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "99",
journal = "Journal of Environmental Economics and Management",
issn = "0095-0696",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
}