Eliciting Consumer WTP for Food Characteristics in a Developing Context: Comparison of four methods in a field experiment

Roselyne Alphonce and Frode Alfnes
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Roselyne Alphonce: School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Postal: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, School of Economics and Business, P.O. Box 5003 NMBU, N-1432 Ås, Norway

No 01-2015, Working Paper Series from Norwegian University of Life Sciences, School of Economics and Business

Abstract: This paper aims at answering two objectives;1) assess consumer preference and willingness to pay for organic and food safety inspected tomatoes in a traditional African food market; 2) compare willingness to pay for the tomato attributes in four different elicitation techniques. We elicit willingness to pay for conventional, organic and/or food-safetyinspected tomatoes using methods that can be conducted with one respondent at a time: the Becker–DeGroot–Marschak mechanism, multiple price lists, multiple price lists with stated quantities, and real-choice experiments. All methods show that consumers are willing to pay a premium for organic and food-safety-inspected tomatoes. However, the size of the premium is significantly larger when consumers choose between alternatives than when they indicate their reservation price. Throughout the paper, we discuss method implementation issues for this context and make method recommendations for future research.

Keywords: elicitation methods; framed field experiments; organic; food-safety inspected; Tanzania; WTP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D12 Q10 Q13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2015-03-05
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