The Value of Preventing Malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia
The authors measure the monetary value households place on preventing malaria in Tembien, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. They estimate a household demand function for a hypothetical malaria vaccine and compute the value of preventing malaria as the house...
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okr-10986-222662021-04-23T14:04:07Z The Value of Preventing Malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia Cropper, Maureen L. Haile, Mitiku Lampietti, Julian A. Poulos, Christine Whittington, Dale AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE BUDGET CONSTRAINTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CONTINGENT VALUATION DAMAGES DEMAND CURVE DEMAND CURVES DIARRHEAL DISEASE ECONOMICS LITERATURE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES FAMILIES FOOD PREPARATION HEALTH CARE HOUSING IMPREGNATED BEDNETS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFECTION LABOR MARKETS LEISURE LEISURE TIME LORENZ CURVE MALARIA MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MEDICAL TREATMENT MORBIDITY MOTIVATION PATIENTS PILL PRIVATE COSTS PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH RAINFALL RAINY SEASON RESOURCE ALLOCATION SOCIAL COSTS VACCINES WAGES WILLINGNESS TO PAY WORKERS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION The authors measure the monetary value households place on preventing malaria in Tembien, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. They estimate a household demand function for a hypothetical malaria vaccine and compute the value of preventing malaria as the households maximum willingness to pay to provide vaccines for all family members. They contrast willingness to pay with the traditional costs of illness (medical costs and time lost because of malaria). Their results indicate that the value of preventing malaria with vaccines is about US$36 a household a year, or about 15 percent of imputed annual household income. This is, on average, about two or three times the expected household cost of illness. Despite the great benefits from preventing malaria, the fact that vaccine demand is price inelastic suggests that it will be difficult to achieve significant market penetration unless the vaccine is subsidized. The authors obtain similar results for insecticide-treated bed nets. Their estimates of household demand functions for bed nets suggest that at a price that might permit cost recovery (US$6 a bed net), only a third of the population of a 200-person village would sleep under bed nets. 2015-07-21T14:54:26Z 2015-07-21T14:54:26Z 2000-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/01/438962/value-preventing-malaria-tembien-ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22266 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2273 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Ethiopia |
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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE BUDGET CONSTRAINTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CONTINGENT VALUATION DAMAGES DEMAND CURVE DEMAND CURVES DIARRHEAL DISEASE ECONOMICS LITERATURE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES FAMILIES FOOD PREPARATION HEALTH CARE HOUSING IMPREGNATED BEDNETS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFECTION LABOR MARKETS LEISURE LEISURE TIME LORENZ CURVE MALARIA MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MEDICAL TREATMENT MORBIDITY MOTIVATION PATIENTS PILL PRIVATE COSTS PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH RAINFALL RAINY SEASON RESOURCE ALLOCATION SOCIAL COSTS VACCINES WAGES WILLINGNESS TO PAY WORKERS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION |
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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE BUDGET CONSTRAINTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CONTINGENT VALUATION DAMAGES DEMAND CURVE DEMAND CURVES DIARRHEAL DISEASE ECONOMICS LITERATURE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES FAMILIES FOOD PREPARATION HEALTH CARE HOUSING IMPREGNATED BEDNETS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFECTION LABOR MARKETS LEISURE LEISURE TIME LORENZ CURVE MALARIA MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MEDICAL TREATMENT MORBIDITY MOTIVATION PATIENTS PILL PRIVATE COSTS PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH RAINFALL RAINY SEASON RESOURCE ALLOCATION SOCIAL COSTS VACCINES WAGES WILLINGNESS TO PAY WORKERS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Cropper, Maureen L. Haile, Mitiku Lampietti, Julian A. Poulos, Christine Whittington, Dale The Value of Preventing Malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia |
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The authors measure the monetary value
households place on preventing malaria in Tembien, Tigray
Region, Ethiopia. They estimate a household demand function
for a hypothetical malaria vaccine and compute the value of
preventing malaria as the households maximum willingness to
pay to provide vaccines for all family members. They
contrast willingness to pay with the traditional costs of
illness (medical costs and time lost because of malaria).
Their results indicate that the value of preventing malaria
with vaccines is about US$36 a household a year, or about 15
percent of imputed annual household income. This is, on
average, about two or three times the expected household
cost of illness. Despite the great benefits from preventing
malaria, the fact that vaccine demand is price inelastic
suggests that it will be difficult to achieve significant
market penetration unless the vaccine is subsidized. The
authors obtain similar results for insecticide-treated bed
nets. Their estimates of household demand functions for bed
nets suggest that at a price that might permit cost recovery
(US$6 a bed net), only a third of the population of a
200-person village would sleep under bed nets. |
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Working Paper |
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Cropper, Maureen L. Haile, Mitiku Lampietti, Julian A. Poulos, Christine Whittington, Dale |
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Cropper, Maureen L. Haile, Mitiku Lampietti, Julian A. Poulos, Christine Whittington, Dale |
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Cropper, Maureen L. |
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The Value of Preventing Malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia |
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The Value of Preventing Malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia |
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The Value of Preventing Malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia |
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The Value of Preventing Malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia |
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The Value of Preventing Malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia |
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value of preventing malaria in tembien, ethiopia |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2015 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/01/438962/value-preventing-malaria-tembien-ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22266 |
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