Investigating starting-point bias: A survey of willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2121-2130

  Onwujekwe, Obinna ^a   Nwagbo, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Bidding game; Insecticide treated nets; Nigeria; Starting point bias; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

CONTINGENT VALUATION; IMPREGNATED BEDNET; INSECTICIDE; RURAL AREA; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NIGERIA; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEDDING AND LINENS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPETITIVE BIDDING; DECISION MAKING; FEES AND CHARGES; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGOTIATING; NIGERIA; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0036975488     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00355-0     Document Type: Article

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