The phrase "a contingent valuation study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific type of economic study that assesses the value of non-market resources, often related to environmental economics.
Example: "The researchers conducted a contingent valuation study to determine the public's willingness to pay for the preservation of the local wetlands."
Alternatives: "a willingness-to-pay study" or "an economic valuation study".
A contingent valuation study is conducted to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing skin cancer risks.
We carried out a contingent valuation study to examine the foreign and local visitors' willingness to pay (WTP) for turtle conservation under two different management scenarios.
This paper reports the results from a contingent valuation study designed to investigate the influence of warm glow in willingness to pay (WTP) responses.
The benefits from a conservation program for this currently unprotected local breed is estimated in a contingent valuation study, while a bio-economic model is used to estimate the costs associated with its in situ conservation.
A contingent valuation study involving a quasi-experimental design was undertaken to measure motorists self and perceived others' willingness to pay (WTP) for improvements to the paved road surface.
A choice experiment examined a range of biodiversity attributes including familiarity of species, species rarity, habitat, and ecosystem processes, while a contingent valuation study examined public willingness to pay for biodiversity enhancements associated with agri-environmental and habitat re-creation policy.
The pilot surveying and pretesting are essential elements in any contingent valuation study (Bateman et al. [1995]).
In this study, data from a contingent valuation survey was used to estimate the recreation value, in economic terms, of various stand types within boreal forest landscapes, given by four different silvicultural systems.
The general approach chosen was a contingent valuation survey with a willingness-to-pay format.
We conducted a contingent valuation survey among drug shop customers in Mukono District, Uganda.
For the value of a life year (VOLY) we take 40,000 euro/YLL, as determined by a large contingent valuation study in nine EU countries by Desaigues et al. [ 26]; that value is now used by the ExternE project series, the European program to assess the external costs of pollution [ 27].
