Institutions, Culture, and Wetland Values

Chaikumbung, Mayula; Doucouliagos, Hristos; Scarborough, Helen

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3261707

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“…The 79 studies included in this dataset report multiple estimates per study hanging on whether they use different model estimations, payment vehicles, and sample groups. To handle data holding multiple estimates per study, this paper treat the datasets as panel datasets and adjusts the standard errors for clustering of estimates within studies which this approach is widely used in prior MA-studies such as Oczkowski and Doucouliagos, 33 Chaikumbung et al, 34,35 and Chaikumbung. 36 Establishing causality.…”

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“…To mitigate the risk of reverse causality, this study follows Chaikumbung et al 35 and Chaikumbung 36 by using three 3-year lags in democracy and also public health expenditure variables. Lagged values are based on the idea that even if democracy and public health spending today are correlated with WTP for healthcare services but not causing them, then lagged values in democracy and public health expenditure are more likely to cause valuations.…”

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Democracy, Culture and Cancer Patients’ Willingness to Pay for Healthcare Services: A Meta-analysis

Chaikumbung

2021

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Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally and expenditure associated with cancer is quite high. Efficient resource allocation needs information on economic evaluations of healthcare interventions. The purposes of the study are to provide a comprehensive overview of cancer patients’ willingness to pay (WTP) for healthcare services and to investigate the influence of democracies, culture dimensions, and other factors on WTP. A meta-analysis was conducted using PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar to identify all studies of stated preference approach to estimate cancer patients’ WTP healthcare services. A set of criteria was constructed for selecting relevant studies. A total of 79 studies were related to selection criteria and held sufficient information for the purposes of meta-analysis. A total of 393 estimates of WTP from 79 healthcare valuation studies were pooled to identify the links between WTP and influential factors. The findings suggest that values of benefits in healthcare services are higher in more democratic nations, but they are lower in cultural traits that are stronger indulgence and uncertainty avoidance. Further, the types of cancer matter. Compared to breast cancer, WTP is higher for skin cancer, yet lower for liver cancer and lymphoma. A higher national income and public health expenditure increase WTP for healthcare services, while a higher death rate by cancer leads to lower values of healthcare benefits.

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