| Registro completo |
| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
|
| País: |
United States
|
| Título: |
A Comparison of Actual and Hypothetical Willingness to Pay of Parents and Non-Parents for Protecting Infant Health: The Case of Nitrates in Drinking Water
|
| Autores: |
Loomis, John B.
Bell, Paul
Cooney, Helen
Asmus, Cheryl
|
| Data: |
2010-01-21
|
| Ano: |
2009
|
| Palavras-chave: |
Altruism
Conjoint
Drinking water
Nitrates
Validity
Willingness to pay
Agricultural and Food Policy
Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Health Economics and Policy
Institutional and Behavioral Economics
I10
Q53
|
| Resumo: |
We estimate adults’ willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce health risks to their own or other families’ infants to test for altruism. A conjoint analysis of adults paying for bottled water found marginal WTP for reduction in risk of shock, brain damage, and mortality in the cash treatment of $2, $3.70, and $9.43, respectively. In the hypothetical market these amounts were $14, $26, and $66, indicating substantial hypothetical bias, although not unexpected due to the topic of infant health. Statistical tests confirm a high degree of altruism in our WTP results, and altruism held even when real money was involved.
|
| Tipo: |
Journal Article
|
| Idioma: |
Inglês
|
| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/56657
|
| Relação: |
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics>Volume 41, Number 03, December 2009
|
| Formato: |
15
|
|
