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The Economics of Warm Glow: A Note on Consumer's Behavior and Public Policy Implications
Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Onofri, Laura - 2004
The paper focuses on the ongoing debate on non-market valuation, including the valuation environmental goods, and the opportunity to use contingent valuation for policy guidance. In fact, contingent valuation critics argue that reported willingness to pay answers do not reflect real economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324992
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2007
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a “value of life” type of framework. We are able to express adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807361
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Does willingness to pay increase with the number and strictness of sustainability labels?
Tebbe, Eva; von Blanckenburg, Korbinian - 2017
Labels signaling sustainable product attributes are gaining importance, although uncertainty concerning the environmental, micro- and macroeconomic benefits of such labels persist. One of the questions still incom-pletely answered is whether Willingness To Pay (WTP) varies with a gradually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716937
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Estimating households' willingness to pay
Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - 2010
bounds on willingness to pay for the organic characteristic. We combine these estimates with information on households … willingness to pay for organic, with health concerns coming second, and environmental concerns lagging far behind. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288392
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Consumer resistance against regulation: The case of health care
Zweifel, Peter; Telser, Harry; Vaterlaus, Stephan - 2005
Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315556
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Factors Influencing the Purchase of Organic Food in Mexico. A Mixed Analysis
Lopez Salazar, Gloria Lety - In: Small Business International Review (SBIR) 3 (2019) 2, pp. 69-85
The objective of this research is to analyze the factors influencing the willingness to pay extra for organic food and … levels in the Country. The findings show that the factors that influence the willingness to pay extra for organic food are … items such as the consumer age, the level of awareness on the organic food benefits and the availability of the products. …
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Consumers' willingness to pay for organic rice: Insights from a non‐hypothetical experiment in Indonesia
Grimm, Michael; Luck, Nathalie; Steinhübel, Franziska - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 67 (2023) 1, pp. 83-103
As in many high‐income countries, there is increasing awareness towards organic farming in many low‐ and middle …‐income countries. Sustained local demand is an essential requirement for further adoption of organic farming by smallholders, who … (WTP) for organic products in low‐ and middle‐income countries in real purchase situations. This paper analyses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503531
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Analysis of country of origin labeling for food products in Taiwan using auction experiment
Chern, Wen S.; Lin, Huei-Ching - 2010
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the economic benefits of country of origin labeling (COOL) regulation by estimating the consumer's willingness to pay (WTP) for Taiwan products vs. other imported products if clearly labeled with their countries of origin. We employ the Vickrey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332245
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Information provision to consumers as an instrument of environmental regulation
Andersen, Laura Mørch - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503127
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Warm glow and embedding in contingent valuation
Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Schokkaert, Erik - 2001
This paper reports the results from a contingent valuation study designed to investigate the influence of warm glow in willingness-to-pay responses. Interindividual differences in warm glow motivation are measured through a factor analysis, performed on a list of attitudinal items. The reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608835