Is Meta-Analysis a Noah's Ark for Non-Market Valuation?

By V. Smith, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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How reliable are meta-analyses for international benefit transfers? (2008, unknown): “Meta-analysis (MA), " the study of studies " , is now common in environmental economics and non-market valuation (Smith and Pattanayak, 2002).”
Taking stock of agroforestry adoption studies (2003, background): “1See Smith and Pattanayak (2002) for a recent review of the applications of meta-analysis in environmental and resource economics.”
The Use (and Abuse) of Meta-Analysis in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: An Assessment (2009, unknown): “Determine if the results of the meta-analysis support a benefit-transfer application, and discuss why or why not (Smith and Pattanayak 2002).”
Contingent Valuation and Cultural Resources: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Literature (2003, background): “Following Smith and Pattanayak (2002), consistency among these WTP measures and among the goods in question is critical to the meta-analysis, although this preliminary summary is not intended for benefit transfers.”
What can we learn from benefit transfer errors? Evidence from 20 years of research on convergent validity (2013, background): “As Smith and Pattanayak [24] explain, the benefit concept and the amenity being valued must be held constant in order to make consistent predictions for policy case benefits.”
Using Meta-Analysis and GIS for Value Transfer and Scaling Up: Valuing Climate Change Induced Losses of European Wetlands (2012, background): “2 Smith and Pattanayak (2002) and Nelson and Kennedy (2009) provide best practice guidelines for conducting meta-analyses of the economic valuation literature and address the additional requirements for value transfer. for each of these variables at pre- and post-change states for each policy site…”
Valuing water quality improvements in the United States using meta-analysis: Is the glass half-full or half-empty for national policy analysis? (2007, background): “ Smith and Pattanayak (2002) suggest ‘‘structural meta-analysis’’ as a way of combining estimates from different valuation approaches in theoretically consistent manner.”
The Empirics of Wetland Valuation: A Comprehensive Summary and a Meta-Analysis of the Literature (2006, methodology): “Section 4 describes the setup for a meta-regression, specifically the specification and functional form of the meta-regression function.”