The study was conducted to address the issue of consumers’ willingness to pay for inclusion of cassava flour in bread in Lagos State. The data were collected randomly from a sample of 300 respondents in the state through the use of a well structured questionnaire. The contingent valuation method was adopted to estimate both the mean willingness to pay of consumers and the factors that affect th...

A.A. Cerda, L.Y. García, F.J. Tolosa, and V.A. García. 2015. Preferences and willingness to pay for organic pears among high-income people in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile. Cien. Inv. Agr. 42(2):181-189. The aim of this study is to determine the preferences and willingness to pay for organic pears among high-income people in the Metropolitan area of Santiago de Chile. To do this, t...

groundwater can be used directly or indirectly and any decline in its quality or quantity maynegatively impact the environment. through groundwater valuation, people are made aware of the fact thatgroundwater is not free of charge and therefore the significance of groundwater preservation is established. in this study, groundwater quality preservation value has been estimated for the city of ya...

AIMS To assess willingness to pay for spectacles in provincial Cambodia, and use this to inform creation of a financially self-sustaining spectacle scheme within a blindness prevention programme. METHODS An interview-based questionnaire was used to elicit willingness to pay for spectacles of all people dispensed spectacles during an outreach refraction service visit to three village health ce...

This paper investigates the willingness to pay for an improved waste management in Silchar municipal area under Cachar district in Assam. On an average, 63% of the households are willing to pay for improved waste management. It is therefore apparent that Silchar residents in general regard waste management as an environmental service as they are willing to pay for its provision. An open ended c...

Agricultural production is subject to high risk associated with environmental and agro-ecological conditions. Farmers continuously make decisions to mitigate the various adversities. This study evaluates farm households’ willingness to pay for agricultural risk insurance intervention introduced in Ethiopia in 2009. A bidding game approach is used to elicit willingness-to-pay. We use a unique da...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to investigate people's willingness to pay to sustain the current National Health Insurance (NHI) program in Taiwan and to extend that program to cover long-term care services. METHODS A survey was administered to 1800 inpatients and 1800 outpatients, selected from health care facilities across all accreditation levels that were operating under ...

Preferences for developing 3600 MW offshore wind farms in Denmark are estimated based on data from a choice experiment. The variation willingness to pay the location of power development at 8, 12, 18, or 50 km shore is analysed as function gender, age, education, income, turbine viewshed, and beach visits. With space mixlogit model, we find that varies significantly income level, viewshed farms...