Dr. Gunther Bensch
Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (RWI)
Email bensch@rwi-essen.de
Website https://en.rwi-essen.de/
This study investigates whether willingness to pay for improved cookstoves, and ultimately their acceptance, is increased by prior experience of use. The research is based on anexperiment conducted among a sample of households that participated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in 2009 and 2010, located in a rural intervention region of GIZ in Senegal. The Becker-DeGroot-Marschak method was used, coupled with a real purchase offer, to determine households' willingness to pay in an unbiased manner. A complementary household survey was conducted to investigate, among other things, how households make decisions regarding the choice of modern energy options.
Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (RWI)
Email bensch@rwi-essen.de
Website https://en.rwi-essen.de/