Willingness-to-Pay and Demand Curves: A Comparison of Results Obtained Using Different Elicitation Formats

Whynes, David K.; Frew, Emma; Wolstenholme, Jane

doi:10.1007/s10754-005-4014-2

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“…In the present context, it is the most informative and supposedly superior elicitation technique [14]. The open-ended method does not have a range nor a starting point biases, and thus can be highly statistically efficient compared to other discrete formats.…”

Section: Questionnaire Designmentioning

confidence: 95%

Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Waste Collection Service in Gorkha Municipality of Nepal

Maskey

Singh²

2017

Environments

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Municipal solid waste management is a growing problem in urban areas of Nepal where municipalities are severely constrained by budget to manage it effectively. Collecting fees from the public can aid finance for improving waste management service. This study evaluates willingness to pay (WTP) by 401 households, selected using a stratified sampling method from all 15 wards of Gorkha municipality of Nepal for improved waste collection service and the factors influencing it. We employed a contingent valuation method to elicit households' WTP, logit regression model to determine factors influencing WTP and tobit regression model to determine factors influencing the maximum amount households are willing to pay for improved waste collection service. Majority of households (61%) are willing to pay an average amount of NRs. 73.38 (0.72 US$) per month. Factors that significantly influence households' WTP are monthly household income, education of household head, environmental awareness and waste collection service. Except for education of household head, all these factors significantly influence the maximum amount of money households are willing to pay. Concerned stakeholders and policy makers should consider these traits of households before enforcing a waste collection fee.

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Section: Questionnaire Designmentioning

confidence: 95%

Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Waste Collection Service in Gorkha Municipality of Nepal

Maskey

Singh²

2017

Environments

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“…It must be noted that the CV approach itself remains controversial, not least because the values elicited seem to depend on a wide variety of contextual factors, such as elicitation format (Whynes et al, 2005a), hypothetical bias (Liljas and Blumenschein, 2000) and task ordering (Stewart et al, 2002). Individuals are known to respond differently to choice tasks when asked to play different roles (Dolan and Green, 1998) and it remains unclear whether the method actually elicits true monetary valuations or more generalised representations of psychological dispositions (Ryan and Spash, 2011).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…a strong association between willingness to contribute and household income (Grutters et al, 2009;van der Pol et al, 2008). It replicates how people choose to donate money (Borghi and Jan, 2008) and has been shown to be the elicitation format least prone to upward bias when valuing willingness to pay for cancer screening (Whynes et al, 2005a). As an adjunct, subjects were asked to select up to six possible explanations for their selection of CVs, from a list informed by those volunteered by the subjects of a CV analysis of bowel cancer screening (Whynes et al, 2003).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Sex, benevolence and willingness to pay for screening

Whynes

Sach

2016

IJSE

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Purpose: We report the findings of a contingent valuation survey of health care services, designed to illuminate self-interest and benevolence on the part of one sex for the other. Design/methodology/approach: In a constructed scenario, men and women recorded how much they would be willing to contribute to each of three different types of cancer screening, one of which would be available only to members of the opposite sex. Findings: Over two-thirds of individuals, amongst whom men were more heavily represented, chose an identical contingent valuation for all three services. Amongst those who nominated dissimilar values, a willingness to contribute to own-sex screening coupled with an unwillingness to contribute to opposite-sex screening was more common amongst women than amongst men. Both sexes valued own-sex screening more highly than opposite-sex screening yet, compared with men, women were prepared to offer proportionately less for the latter relative to the former. In an associated person trade-off task, women were considerably less likely than men to choose opposite-sex screening at the expense of a type from which they could benefit personally. Originality/value: To date, very little research has been undertaken on differential responses to health valuation of care provision by sex. The results suggest a degree of asymmetry between the sexes, with respect to self-interest and benevolence

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“…Among the most promising and fast growing study types to estimate health outcome value are contingent valuation studies that estimate value by posing a set of contingencies [20]. However, their main problem is that such valuation depends on the nature and presentation of these contingencies [29]. Despite the inherent problems of trying to attach economic value to health, CBA is a very powerful tool.…”

Section: Cost-benefit Analysis (Cba)mentioning

confidence: 99%