Consumer Preferences for Water Supply? An Application of Choice Models to Urban India

P B Anand

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: This paper examines consumer preferences for the attributes of alternative sources of water supply in Chennai, based on a household survey where respondents were given the description of a set of options. Their decision to choose one of the options is examined using discrete choice models. Whether consumer preferences are hierarchical or lexicographic is also briefly examined. Access to a yard tap is considered to be a more important attribute than water quantity, quality and the provider (the private sector or public sector). In general, the estimated willingness to pay is substantially highe rthan the present monthly water expenditures. [DiscussionPaperNo.2001/145]

Keywords: watersupply; consumerpreferences; discretechoice; lexicographic preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dcm
Note: Institutional Papers
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownl ... &AId=3287&fref=repec

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:ess:wpaper:id:3287

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Padma Prakash ().