摘要：Economics majors are often assumed to lack civic mindedness.The purpose of this
paper then is to demonstrate how by engaging students in the proper
understanding of contingent valuation (CV) methodology and by evaluating a
social service,we can improve student outcomes in two areas: increasing their
competence in research design as well as in the process teaching them to consider
the more unfortunate. Since students are really learning by doing in this prescribed
process, the attractiveness of the teaching methodology is that the instructor
substitutes direct learning and instruction on research design for one where
students learn much of the subject matter through experimentation.This paper
articulates the experiences of conducting a CV exercise with 49 second- and thirdyear
economics students from the National University of Singapore (in the
Environmental Economics course) during the month of October 2001.
