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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"WTP"”.
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WTP for RAS salmon by the US consumer
… purchases. We express these willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates as percentages of a reference product priced with model estimates. These adjusted retail premiums should be paired with RAS salmon production costs to understand the economic viability of RAS and illuminate the path to EPA and DHA …
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Personalisation through pricing co-creation: Customer’s willingness to pay and pricing strategies in the B2C context of hospitality
… between personalisation and willingness to pay (WTP). WTP is context-dependent, and further exploring the influence of personalisation benefits on customer WTP is needed. This study aims to explore how customer expectation of personalisation affects WTP in the hospitality industry, using CDL as …
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Consumer perceptions of and willingness to pay for lettuce from different agricultural production systems
… perceptions of and willingness to pay (WTP) for lettuce produced in three different production systems: vertical farm, greenhouse and field farm. Additionally, we assess whether providing information on the three production systems alters perceptions and/or WTP, particularly in the case …
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Methodenentwicklung und klinische Anwendung von Willingness-to-pay und Conjoint-Analyse als Parameter der Präferenzenbildung bei Psoriasis vulgaris
… der vorliegenden Studie war es zum einen, die WTP als Messinstrument der Lebensqualität auf ihre Einflussgrößen zu untersuchen, sowie zu klären, ob und in welcher Form die WTP ein im klinischen Alltag einfach zu handhabendes, verständliches und somit einsetzbares Messinstrument ist. <br>Zum …
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Could catchment conservation be funded through urban water tariffs? A case study of three South African cities
… to (i) elicit households' willingness to pay (WTP) for water, (ii) determine factors influencing WTP, and (iii) investigate whether aggregate revenue generated from households' WTP at the municipal scale could cover the costs needed for catchment conservation in that water service provider …
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Congestion control in multi-serviced heterogeneous wireless networks using dynamic pricing
… do not consider the users’ willingness to pay (WTP) before the price of services is determined. WTP is the amount a user is willing to pay based on the worth attached to the service requested. There are different WTP levels for different subscribers due to the differences in the value attached …
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Willingness to Pay for Safer Bathing Water in Poland: A Discrete Choice Experiment linked to Benefit-Cost Analysis
… vehicle was used to derive willingness to pay (WTP) for policy attributes, which was analysed using a mixed logit model in preference space to capture unobserved preference heterogeneity. We find that households valued both policy attributes positively, with diminishing marginal utility across …
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Patient's willingness to pay for pharmaceutical care from community pharmacies in the north east of Thailand.
… determine i) the patient's willingness to pay (WTP) community pharmacists for defined pharmaceutical care, ii) factors which identify the WTP and iii) the feasibility of community pharmacists implementing pharmaceutical care. Method - This consisted of a cross-sectional descriptive study based …
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Ecological and economic valuation of managed realignment sites, Humber Estuary, UK : benefits for society
… residents, eliciting their willingness to pay (WTP) values for both maintenance of their closest site, and access to it. Results from the economic valuation for each site were then related to their ecological status, to see whether these two aspects were interconnected. Generalised Linear …
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An Assessment of Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Attributes of Milk and Dairy Products with the 100% Canadian Milk Symbo
… positively. In addition, the willingness to pay (WTP) literature stipulates that WTP is determined by product attributes and individuals’ characteristics. This thesis therefore seeks to ascertain the factors affecting consumers’ preferences and WTP for products with the 100% Canadian milk symbol. …
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Economic and chemometric studies to supplement food-grade soybean variety development in the Mid-Atlantic region
… and 2) exploring consumer willingness-to-pay (WTP) for fresh, local, organic, and "on-the-stalk" marketed edamame. Sucrose, raffinose, and stachyose sugars hold tremendous implications for utilization of soybean seeds in livestock, soyfood, and probiotics industries. Current sugar phenotyping …
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Biotic Assessment Of Two Central Kentucky Streams: Examining The Effects Of Wastewater Treatment And Anthropogenic Disturbance
… of pollution, and wastewater treatment plants (WTP), a point source of pollution, have all placed a strain on the world’s flowing, fresh, waters. The de-commissioning of two WTPs in the Kentucky River basin, and the commissioning of a new WTP in an adjacent watershed, provided an opportunity to …
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Quality Improvement Projects: Uncertain Benefits of Willingness to Pay from Referendum Contingent Valuation
… to infer the mean or median willingness to pay (WTP) of the sample and, thus, of the population of potential beneficiaries. This is not, however, just a technical point. Its implications are demonstrated with data obtained from a referendum CV study done for a proposed sewer and wastewater …
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The Women's Technology Program : EECS outreach for high school students
The Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a new residential summer school for high school students to live at MIT and study electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). In this thesis I present background research evaluating the state of the current gender imbalance in EECS as well as research …
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ETHNO-RACIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTH OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM THE AGING POPULATION
… and ethnic disparities in willingness to pay (WTP) for improved health among an aging population sample while also examining the impact of health status and risky health behaviors. Results indicate that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to have a positive WTP for improved health than …
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Essays on the Economics of Drinking Water Quality and Infrastructure
… method to explore consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for a hypothetical material in home drinking water infrastructure that will remain leak free. Willingness to pay is investigated using both dichotomous choice and dichotomous choice with follow-up formats using a national telephone survey of …
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Evaluation of community preferences for decentralised water management systems: a case study in Akaroa, Banks Peninsula
… was specified to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for decentralised water supply systems. Results reveal that approximately two-thirds of the sample actually had a negative WTP for decentralised systems (range from -$3,145 to -$1,672), while WTP estimates for the remaining respondents ranged …
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Three Essays on Consumer Behavior and Health Outcomes: An Economic Analysis of the Influence of Nutrition Information and Knowledge on Food Purchasing Behavior and the Impacts of Primary Care Givers Parenting on Childhood Obesity
… consumers' preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for nutritionally differentiated grass-fed beef. Our findings suggest that consumers' nutrition knowledge about the functions of Vitamin A, Vitamin E, CLA, and Omega 3 could positively affect their WTP for grass-fed beef while the knowledge …
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Essays on the Economic Value of Environmental Cleanup
… that home owners' average willingness to pay (WTP) for full cleanup of Sheboygan River is equivalent to $12, 247. The average WTP for full cleanup in Buffalo is $7,833. In addition, we examine the importance of heterogeneous preference by including both demographic characteristics and …
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Hispanic Consumers’ Preferences and Willingness-to-Pay for Grass-Fed Beef in Virginia
… consumers’ preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for grass-fed beef. Two hundred and thirty-one Hispanic consumers in four experiment sites in Virginia (Galax, Roanoke, Richmond, and Blacksburg) participated in an experimental economics laboratory procedure. Taste tests and visual evaluations …
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