Respiratory Health of Pacific Island Immigrants and Preferences for Indoor Air Quality Determinants in New Zealand

John Gibson, Riccardo Scarpa and Halahingano Rohorua ()
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Halahingano Rohorua: University of Waikato

Working Papers in Economics from University of Waikato

Abstract: Indoor air quality affects respiratory diseases, such as asthma, and can be altered by devices that lower dwelling humidity and raise temperature. Several countries have initiated schemes that subsidize devices such as heat pumps based on putative health benefits but the valuations of these devices by the affected populations remains unknown. We investigate preferences for devices that affect indoor air quality, dampness, and warmth, using a choice experiment with a sample of Pacific Islander immigrants in New Zealand. This is a high risk group for respiratory disease, who typically rent crowded and inadequately heated dwellings. Using both conditional logit and panel mixed logit models we find reasonably precise estimates of the willingness to pay for four improved heating and humidity control devices, which would cover the capital costs of two of the devices, and add up to about three-quarters of the cost of the other two devices.

Keywords: respiratory health; indoor air-quality devices; choice experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2013-06-30
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-dcm, nep-hea and nep-mig
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