Using renewable energy for domestic consumption has been identified as a key strategy by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Critical to the success of this strategy is to know whether consumers are willing to pay to increase the proportion of electricity generated from renewable energy in their electricity portfolio. There are a number of studies i...

background: almost one third of the global population is living in developing south asia where disease occurrence is high especially in rural areas and people are unaware of water-borne diseases and cost of illness. methods: the quantitative approach involved questionnaire based study (n=50 households). the community awareness, the occurrence of water-borne diseases with related cost of illness...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which brand experience affects brand credit, brand attitude, and customer-based brand equity. by five-point likert scale, the data will be collected through questionnaire filled by 385 students in islamic azad university-firouzkouh branch using samsung, apple, nokia, sony, sony ericsson, and lg cell phones. lisrel is used to test researc...

OBJECTIVE Household willingness to pay for treatment provides important information for programme planning. We tested for relationships between socioeconomic status, risk of trachoma, perceptions of the effects of azithromycin, and the household willingness to pay for future mass treatment with azithromycin. METHODS We surveyed 394 households in 6 villages located in central United Republic o...

Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates that in the important case of workers’ decisions concerning exposure to fatal injury ...

realizing that there is no specific market for organic products in iran, in this study it is tried to estimate the costs involved in organic productions by means of contingent valuation method and through willingness-to-pay estimation approach. towards this end 219 and 209 double-bounded dichotomous questionnaires were developed (for cucumber in tehran province and for vegetables in gilan provi...

The relationship between income and willingness to pay for collectively provided publicrenvironmental goods is investigated. We show that while the income elasticity of willingness to pay and the ordinary income elasticity of demand are related, knowledge of one is insufficient to determine the magnitude or even the sign of the other. The income elasticity of willingness to pay is influenced by...