Measuring heterogeneous preferences for cattle traits among cattle-keeping households in East Africa

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1005-1019

  Ouma, Emily ^a   Abdulai, Awudu ^a   Drucker, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cattle traits; Choice experiments; Latent class models; Mixed logit models; Nonmarket values; Preference heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; LOGIT ANALYSIS; PASTORALISM; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BOS;

EID: 34848851057     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2007.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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