Using a discrete choice experiment to elicit the demand for a nutritious food: willingness-to-pay for orange maize in rural Zambia.
Using a discrete choice experiment, this paper estimates the willingness to pay for biofortified orange maize in rural Zambia. The study design has five treatment arms, which enable an analysis of the impact of nutrition information, comparing the use of simulated radio versus community leaders in transmitting the nutrition message, on willingness to pay, and to account for possible novelty effects in the magnitude of premiums or discounts. The estimation strategy also takes into account lexicographic preferences of a subset of our respondents. The results suggest that (a) orange maize is not confused with yellow maize, and has the potential to compete with white maize in the absence of a nutrition campaign, (b) there is a premium for orange maize with nutrition information, and (c) different modes of nutritional message dissemination have the same impact on consumer acceptance.
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. j.meenakshi@cgiar.org
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JV
Meenakshi
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Banerji
Victor
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Manyong
Keith
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Tomlins
Nitya
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Mittal
Priscilla
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Hamukwala
D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000523:psychology*; D005527:Food, Fortified / Q000191:economics*; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D012424:Rural Population; D015024:Zambia; D003313:Zea mays / Q000737:chemistry / Q000191:economics*