Study on Residents' Willingness to Pay for Improving Air Quality in Beijing

Ying Li; Mo Bai; Kaizhong Yang; Xuejun Wang

Study on Residents' Willingness to Pay for Improving Air Quality in Beijing

Ying Li
, Mo Bai
, Kaizhong Yang
, Xuejun Wang

Peking University

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Abstract

The aim of the paper is to estimate the value of the improvement of air quality in Beijing through the residents' willingness to pay (WTP) by using the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM). The result indicated that the residents' mean WTP for a 50% reduction of the current concentration of pollutiants in the air was 143yuan per household and per year, and the total WTP of the residents in the research area was 336 million per year. The socio economic variables that had significant influence on WTP were income of household, education level, sum of household's population and age. Some problems on the application of CVM in China were discussed at the end of the paper.

Original language	American English
Journal	Urban Environment and Urban Ecology
Volume	14
State	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Beijing
air quality
contingent valuation method
value estimation
willingness to pay

Disciplines

Environmental Health
Environmental Public Health
Environmental Studies

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