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...

Hypothetical estimates of willingness to pay tend to overstate real willingness to pay. Several methods to mitigate this so called hypothetical bias have been developed. This paper contributes by presenting the first simultaneous comparison of three common hypothetical bias mitigation methods as well as their interactions. In addition, the study represents the first use of the contingent valuat...

How farmers are willing to pay bio-activators needs bestudied. The purposes of this study analyze theknowledge and use bio-activators, as well thewillingness for in rice farming. Theresearch was conducted Malang Regency, with a sampleof 82 from Ngajum Gondanglegi Districts. Datawere analyzed by descriptive multiple linear regression.The results showed that the aware one tofour brands three areu...

The study investigated the constraints to farmers’ intention to pay for private irrigation in Nandom District, Ghana. Using a key informant interviews and semi-structured questionnaires, the study collected data from 236 farmers. Data was analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. Kendall coefficient of concordance was used to determine the level of agreement among farmers in ranking...