A choice modelling (CM) study was conducted to elicit household willingness to pay
(WTP) for improvements in environmental quality in three NSW catchments (Lachlan,
Namoi and Hawkesbury-Nepean). This paper presents results of research designed to
investigate variations in WTP across different communities including local residents,
distant/urban and distant/rural residents. Nine split samples were established to test
for ‘location effect’. The analysis involved both conditional logit and random parameters
logit models.
