کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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7361543 | 1478860 | 2017 | 73 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Demand for environmental quality information and household response: Evidence from well-water arsenic testing
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تقاضا برای اطلاعات کیفیت محیط زیست و پاسخ خانواده: شواهد از آزمایش آرسنیک آب آشامیدنی
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موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی
اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی
اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
Access to information about environmental quality may facilitate low-cost preventive measures that protect human health. In this paper, we study the demand for information about environmental quality and the behavioral response to the information provided. With a field experiment conducted in Bihar (India), we estimate the price sensitivity of demand for diagnostic testing of drinking water wells for arsenic of natural origin - a serious threat to the health of tens of millions of villagers across South and Southeast Asia. Demand is substantial but sensitive to price; uptake falls from 68% to 31% of households over our price range (Rs. 10 to Rs. 50). We further assess how households respond to information regarding the contamination level in their wells. About one-third of households with unsafe wells switch to a safer water source. Finally, we demonstrate that households that received adverse test outcomes are more likely to selectively forget test results, and proactively remove evidence of their wells' arsenic status.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management - Volume 86, November 2017, Pages 160-192
Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management - Volume 86, November 2017, Pages 160-192
نویسندگان
Prabhat Barnwal, Alexander van Geen, Jan von der Goltz, Chander Kumar Singh,