A Comparison of Actual and Hypothetical Willingness to Pay of Parents and Non-Parents for Protecting Infant Health: The Case of Nitrates in Drinking Water
| dc.creator | Loomis, John B. | |
| dc.creator | Bell, Paul | |
| dc.creator | Cooney, Helen | |
| dc.creator | Asmus, Cheryl | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:19:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T05:02:00Z | |
| dc.description | We estimate adults’ willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce health risks to their own or other families’ infants to test for altruism. A conjoint analysis of adults paying for bottled water found marginal WTP for reduction in risk of shock, brain damage, and mortality in the cash treatment of $2, $3.70, and $9.43, respectively. In the hypothetical market these amounts were $14, $26, and $66, indicating substantial hypothetical bias, although not unexpected due to the topic of infant health. Statistical tests confirm a high degree of altruism in our WTP results, and altruism held even when real money was involved. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.56657 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/56657/files/jaae204.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/56657 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/558071 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/56657 | |
| dc.title | A Comparison of Actual and Hypothetical Willingness to Pay of Parents and Non-Parents for Protecting Infant Health: The Case of Nitrates in Drinking Water | |
| dc.type | Text |