Discrete Choice Experiments in Developing Countries: Willingness to Pay Versus Willingness to Work

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• 作者：J. M. Gibson ; D. Rigby ; D. A. Polya ; N. Russell
• 关键词：Choice experiments ; Development ; Health ; Payment vehicles ; WTP ; WTW ; Risk ; Water ; Latent class ; Attribute non ; attedance
• 刊名：Environmental and Resource Economics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：65
• 期：4
• 页码：697-721
• 全文大小：970KB
• 刊物类别：Business and Economics
• 刊物主题：Environmental Economics; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Economic Policy; Economics, general; Environmental Management;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1502
• 卷排序：65

文摘

A concern when conducting stated preference valuation studies in rural developing or very low income contexts is the use of monetary willingness to pay (WTP) estimates. In circumstances where cash incomes are extremely low, a significant proportion of the population are not engaged in waged labour and the exchange of goods or services is augmented through barter or work exchange, the role of money is likely to be different from that within an urban developed setting. As such, ability to pay using money may be impaired and downwardly biased when compared with other mediums of exchange. In recognition of this several studies have used hypothetical labour contributions as payment vehicles and a common finding is that households are more often willing to contribute labour than they are money. In this paper we present the results of a split sample DCE using money and labour contributions as payment vehicles for improved drinking water quality in Kandal Province, Cambodia. We find little differences between the payment vehicles in terms of attribute non-attendance, marginal utilities of attributes or derived welfare values. We argue that this provides support for the use of WTP in rural developing areas where there are functioning labour markets.