Do divergences between stated and actual willingness to pay signify the existence of bias in contingent valuation surveys?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 525-536

  Onwujekwe, Obinna ^a,b   Hanson, Kara ^a   Fox Rushby, Julia ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Bias; Contingent valuation; Divergences; Nigeria; Validity; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; HEALTH CARE; IMPREGNATED BEDNET; MALARIA; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ATTITUDE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; PURCHASING; REVIEW;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 8644251209     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.05.023     Document Type: Article

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