TY - EJOUR AB - We evaluate Coloradans’ preferences for policies decreasing the need for agricultural water transfers using two choice experiments with different frames—one 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. AU - Stone, Janine AU - Costanigro, Marco AU - Goemans, Christopher DA - 2018-09 DA - 2018-09 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.276502 DO - doi EP - 422 EP - 403 ID - 276502 IS - 3 JF - Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics KW - Public Economics KW - Resource/Energy Economics and Policy KW - agriculture KW - best-worst scaling KW - choice experiment KW - latent-class model KW - municipal water demand L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276502/files/JARE%2C43.3%2CSeptember2018%2C%236%2CStone%2C403-422w_Supplement.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276502/files/JARE%2C43.3%2CSeptember2018%2C%236%2CStone%2C403-422w_Supplement.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276502/files/JARE%2C43.3%2CSeptember2018%2C%236%2CStone%2C403-422w_Supplement.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276502/files/JARE%2C43.3%2CSeptember2018%2C%236%2CStone%2C403-422w_Supplement.pdf N2 - We evaluate Coloradans’ preferences for policies decreasing the need for agricultural water transfers using two choice experiments with different frames—one 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. PY - 2018-09 PY - 2018-09 SN - 1068-5502 SP - 403 T1 - Public Opinion on ColoradoWater Rights Transfers: Are Policy Preferences Consistent with Concerns over Impacts? TI - Public Opinion on ColoradoWater Rights Transfers: Are Policy Preferences Consistent with Concerns over Impacts? UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276502/files/JARE%2C43.3%2CSeptember2018%2C%236%2CStone%2C403-422w_Supplement.pdf VL - 43 Y1 - 2018-09 T2 - Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics ER -