Data · dataset · 2005
The Benefits of Improvements in Longevity and Health Quality: Willingness to Pay (WTP) and Quality
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We evaluate the effects of disease type and latency on own willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce environmental risks of chronic, degenerative disease.
Description
Contingent-valuation data were collected from approximately 1,250 respondents in Taiwan. These data suggest the existence of a ancer premium:” WTP to reduce risk of cancer is estimated to be about 30 percent larger than WTP to reduce risk of a similar chronic degenerative disease.
The value of risk reduction also depends on the affected organ, environmental pathway, or payment mechanism: WTP to reduce risk of lung disease due to industrial air pollution is estimated to be twice as large as WTP to reduce risk of liver disease due to contaminated drinking water. Finally, we find that WTP is insensitive to the latency period between exposure to environmental contaminants and manifestation of disease.
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This insensitivity suggests that respondents anticipate their value per statistical life will grow over time at a rate about equal to their discount rate
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Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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| Harvard Dataverse | doi:10.6141/TW-SRDA-E90006-1 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[disease].local:disease:cancer | enrichment · Harvard Dataverse | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[disease].local:disease:disease | enrichment · Harvard Dataverse | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| created_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /description |
| publication_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /name |
| updated_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 |