§ Introduction and Overview The Tiebout (1956) model assumes that households choose their community of residence in part by the quality of its public schools. For the model to operate efficiently, school districts should be numerous. In 1916, there were over 200,000 public school districts in the United States. By 2005, there were fewer than 15,000. Most observers regard this decline as evidenc...

There is general agreement among public health practitioners, academics, and policymakers that people offered health screening tests should be able to make informed choices about whether to accept. Robust measures are necessary in order to gauge the extent to which informed choice is achieved in practice and whether efforts to improve it have succeeded. This review aims to add to the literature...

This study investigates differences in the partial scoring performance of examinees in elimination testing and conventional dichotomous scoring of multiple-choice tests implemented on a computer-based system. Elimination testing that uses the same set of multiple-choice items rewards examinees with partial knowledge over those who are simply guessing. This study provides a computer-based test a...

Dichotomous choice (or Referendum) contingent valuation surveys have become the predominate choice for valuing goods and services otherwise not valued in a standard market (nonmarket goods and services). A number of researchers have recently recommended that dichotomous choice contingent valuation studies include a follow-up question to all no responses to determine whether the no response is a...

Simplifying and popularizing the preservation values (valuation methods) of national parks—based on premise accuracy—shows stakeholders importance parks, is basis for exploring sustainable use development mechanisms. However, there are hypotheses biases, strategic starting point biases in regards to existing evaluation methods. Therefore, based results contingent valuation method research, unde...