Using Willingness To Pay To Value Close Substitutes: Carrier Screening for Cystic Fibrosis Revisited

Cam Donaldson, Phil Shackley and Mona Abdalla

Health Economics, 1997, vol. 6, issue 2, 145-159

Abstract: Evidence suggests that previous uses of willingness to pay (WTP) to value close substitutes may have failed to discriminate between the alternatives being evaluated. This paper reports on the application of a new technique for measuring WTP in such contexts. The alternatives evaluated are two methods of screening for cystic fibrosis carrier status. The results suggest that the new method is more discriminating. Furthermore, the paper provides evidence, from reasons for respondents' WTP valuations and regression analyses, that the use of open‐ended WTP questions is not valid. This is in line with the recommendations of a recent, influential, report on the use WTP techniques. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1997
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (29)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199703)6:23.0.CO;2-N

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:hlthec:v:6:y:1997:i:2:p:145-159

Access Statistics for this article

Health Economics is currently edited by Alan Maynard, John Hutton and Andrew Jones

More articles in Health Economics from John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().