Citizen evaluation of municipal services is an important development in urban policymaking.' In this paper we use a measure of willingness to pay per capita costs to determine citizen preferences. Specifically we test (1) whether people are less willing to support government programs when they are asked to pay the per capita share of the cost, (2) whether the relative ordering of different programs changes when willingness to pay is asked, and (3) whether such questions affect the assessment of some kinds of people differently from others.
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Arrington et al. (1982) studied this question.