Household’s willingness to pay for heterogeneous attributes of drinking water quality and services improvement: an application of choice experiment

Applied Water Science

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 253-259

  Dauda, Suleiman Alhaji ^a   Yacob, Mohd Rusli ^a   Radam, Alias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Choice modelling; Conditional logit model; Heterogeneous attributes; Household preference; Water quality; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; POTABLE WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CHOICE MODEL; CONDITIONAL LOGIT; CONDITIONAL LOGIT MODEL; HETEROGENEOUS ATTRIBUTES; HOUSEHOLD PREFERENCE; LOGIT MODELS; SIMPLE MODELING; WATER SERVICE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

WATER QUALITY;

DEVELOPING WORLD; DRINKING WATER; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MODELING; WATER QUALITY; WATERBORNE DISEASE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

DAMATURU; NIGERIA; YOBE;

EID: 84978972991     PISSN: 21905487     EISSN: 21905495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13201-014-0186-6     Document Type: Article

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