Valuing Urban Bus Attributes: An Experience in Kolkata

Valuing Urban Bus Attributes

The article presents the marginal willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates for various qualitative and quantitative attributes of travel with reference to the bus transportation system in Kolkata City, India. A stated choice experiment is designed to capture the responses for estimating marginal WTP values for various attributes. WTP values are estimated separately for commuting and noncommuting trip...

The gendered experience with respect to health-seeking behaviour in an urban slum of Kolkata, India

BACKGROUND Empirical evidence shows that the relationship between health-seeking behaviour and diverse gender elements, such as gendered social status, social control, ideology, gender process, marital status and procreative status, changes across settings. Given the high relevance of social settings, this paper intends to explore how gender elements interact with health-seeking practices among...

Valuing Attributes of Fluid Milk in Laos

This study estimates the random utility function of fluid milk using 1,165 survey responses in Laos. It finds that both products’ attributes and individual characteristics affect consumers’ preference for the milk and the hypothetical brand of Laos-Korea has a potential compared to four real dairy products. Results also show that calories have a positive relationship with consumer’s preference ...

Valuing Urban Wetlands

Musculoskeletal and Other Health Problems in Workers of Small Scale Garment Industry – An Experience from An Urban Slum, Kolkata

The small scale garment industries have provided a good number of employment opportunities to both men and women of low socio-economic group although occupational health problems among them are not much explored. An observational, descriptive, cross sectional epidemiological study was carried out primarily to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal and other health problems, to find out the...