Garming, Hildegard; Waibel, Hermann - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2006
A contingent valuation approach to assess the health effects of pesticides among Nicaraguan vegetable farmers is presented. Farmers' valuation of health is measured as willingness to pay (WTP) for low toxicity pesticides. Results show, that farmers are willing to spend about 28% of current...