Awareness and the demand for environmental quality: survey evidence on drinking water in urban India
Awareness and the demand for environmental quality: survey evidence on drinking water in urban India
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DOI：
10.1017/s1355770x08005020
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发表时间：
2009-12-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Chaudhuri, Saraswata
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作者：
Jalan, Jyotsna;Somanathan, E.;Chaudhuri, Saraswata
由于贫穷，人们常常认为发展中国家对环境质量的要求很低。人们很少注意到，缺乏对环境污染对健康不利影响的认识也可能使需求保持在低水平。我们使用来自印度城市的家庭调查来估计学校教育、接触大众媒体和其他意识措施对家庭水净化的影响。我们发现这些意识的措施对家庭净化有统计上显著的影响，因此，对支付意愿。这些影响在程度上与财富效应相似。不同家庭净化方法的平均成本被用来部分估算人们愿意为更好的饮用水质量买单。
The demand for environmental quality is often presumed to be low in developing countries due to poverty. Less attention has been paid to the possibility that lack of awareness about adverse health effects of environmental pollution could also keep the demand low. We use a household Survey from urban India to estimate the effects of schooling, exposure to mass media, and other measures of awareness on home water purification. We find that these measures of awareness have statistically significant effects on home purification and, therefore, on willingness to pay. These effects are similar in magnitude to the wealth effects. Average costs of different home purification methods are used to generate partial estimates of willingness to pay for better drinking water quality.