@article{GrimmLuckSteinhuebel2022, author = {Grimm, Michael and Luck, Nathalie and Steinh{\"u}bel, Franziska}, title = {Consumers' willingness to pay for organic rice: Insights from a non-hypothetical experiment in Indonesia}, series = {Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics}, volume = {67}, journal = {Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics}, number = {1}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, doi = {10.1111/1467-8489.12501}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-12412}, pages = {83 -- 103}, year = {2022}, abstract = {As in many high-income countries, there is increasing awareness towards organic farming in many low- and middle-income countries. Sustained local demand is an essential requirement for further adoption of organic farming by smallholders, who typically have only limited access to export markets. Until now, only few studies have explored the local willingness to pay (WTP) for organic products in low- and middle-income countries in real purchase situations. This paper analyses the consumers' WTP for organic rice in urban and suburban Indonesia using an incentive-compatible auction based on the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) approach. We further study the effect of income and a randomised information treatment about the benefits of organic food on respondents' WTP. Estimates suggest that respondents are willing to pay an average price premium of 20\% compared with what they paid for conventional rice outside our experiment. However, our results also indicate that raising consumers' WTP further is complex. Showing participants a video about health or, alternatively, environmental benefits of organic food was not effective in further raising WTP. The results can be used as a basis for the design of alternative awareness measures to increase knowledge, interest and demand for organic food.}, language = {en} } @article{Fritz2022, author = {Fritz, Manuela}, title = {Temperature and non-communicable diseases: Evidence from Indonesia's primary health care system}, series = {Health Economics}, volume = {31}, journal = {Health Economics}, number = {11}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, doi = {10.1002/hec.4590}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-11429}, pages = {2445 -- 2464}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Climate change induced rising temperatures will pose a detrimental threat to decent health in the coming decades. Especially at risk are individuals with chronic diseases, since heat can exacerbate a variety of health conditions. In this article, I examine the heat-morbidity relationship in the context of Indonesia, focusing on chronic, non-communicable diseases, namely diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Using a novel dataset from the Indonesian national health insurance scheme Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional/Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (BPJS) and linking it with meteorological data on the daily-district level, I estimate the causal effect of high temperatures on the daily number of primary health care visits. The results show that on a hot day all-cause visits and visits with a diagnosis of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases increase by 8\%, 25\% and 14\%, respectively. These increases are permanent and not offset by visit displacement or 'harvesting'. Visits related to respiratory diseases seem not to be affected by high temperatures. I use several climate change scenarios to predict the increase in visits and costs by the end of the century, which all forecast a substantial financial burden for the health care system. These results might have relevance for other middle-income countries with similar climatic conditions.}, language = {en} }