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Tytuł pozycji:

The effect of protest zeros on estimates of willingness to pay in healthcare contingent valuation analysis.

Tytuł:
The effect of protest zeros on estimates of willingness to pay in healthcare contingent valuation analysis.
Autorzy:
Fonta WM; Health and Environmental Economics Unit, Department of Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria. />Ichoku HE
Kabubo-Mariara J
Źródło:
Applied health economics and health policy [Appl Health Econ Health Policy] 2010; Vol. 8 (4), pp. 225-37.
Typ publikacji:
Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Język:
English
Imprint Name(s):
Original Publication: Auckland, N.Z. : Open Mind Journals Ltd., c2002-
MeSH Terms:
Game Theory*
Health Expenditures*
Antimalarials/*economics
Insect Control/*economics
Malaria/*economics
Adult ; Cameroon ; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Female ; Humans ; Interviews as Topic ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Models, Econometric ; Young Adult
Substance Nomenclature:
0 (Antimalarials)
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20100629 Date Completed: 20100930 Latest Revision: 20100628
Update Code:
20240104
DOI:
10.2165/11530400-000000000-00000
PMID:
20578778
Czasopismo naukowe
'Protest zeros' occur when respondents reject some aspect of the contingent valuation (CV) market scenario by reporting a zero value even though they place a positive value on the amenity being valued. This is inevitable even in the best-designed CV study, and, when excluded on an ad hoc basis, may cause a selection bias problem. This could affect the reliability of the willingness to pay (WTP) estimates obtained for preference assessment. Treatment of 'protest zeros' in general, and particularly in the context of developing countries, has been rather unsatisfactory. Most case studies employ the Heckman 2-step approach, which is much less robust to co-linearity problems than the Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) estimator. The main objective of this article is to illustrate a sequential procedure to simultaneously deal with co-linearity and selectivity bias resulting from excluding 'protest zeros' in CV analysis. The sequential procedure involves different levels of estimation and diagnostics with the 2-step and FIML estimators; the duration of the procedure depends on the diagnostic test results at each stage of the estimations. The data used for the analysis were elicited using the conventional dichotomous choice buttressed with an open-ended follow-up question. The survey was designed to elicit households' WTP for a proposed community-based malaria control scheme in rural Cameroon. In the application context, we found that the different levels of estimation and diagnostics resulted in reliable WTP estimates from the FIML approach, which would obviously have been overlooked in the absence of such diagnostics.

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