Factors Influencing Households’ Willingness to Pay for Advanced Waste Management Services in an Emerging Nation
This paper analyzes the factors affecting the willingness to pay of urban households concerned with efficient waste management in Bangladesh. The multistage random sampling approach selected 1400 families from seven major cities in Bangladesh. This study addresses the socioeconomic and environmental...
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description | This paper analyzes the factors affecting the willingness to pay of urban households concerned with efficient waste management in Bangladesh. The multistage random sampling approach selected 1400 families from seven major cities in Bangladesh. This study addresses the socioeconomic and environmental factors that influence urban households’ willingness to pay for improved waste management services in Bangladesh. This study uniquely contributes to the literature by providing a large-scale empirical analysis of 1470 households using a logit model, revealing income, education, and environmental awareness as key predictors of WTP. Detailed survey data from respondents were then analyzed using a logit model based on the contingent valuation method. Indeed, the logit model showed that six variables (education, monthly income, value of the asset, knowledge of environment, and climate change) had a statistically significant effect on the WTP of the households. The results show that 63% of respondents were willing to pay BDT 250 or more per month. The most influential factors driving this willingness to pay were income (OR = 1.35), education level (OR = 1.45), and environmental awareness (OR = 3.56). These variables all contribute positively towards WTP. The idea is that families have some socioeconomic characteristics, regardless of which they are ready to pay for a higher level of waste collection. It is recommended that government interference be affected through various approaches, as listed below: support for public–private sector undertaking and disposal, an extensive cleaning campaign, decentralized management, cutting waste transport costs, and privatization of some waste management systems. These could be used to develop solutions to better waste management systems and improve public health. |
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spelling | doaj-art-ffea7bd9f6f343ed81707d49e7b0e54c2025-07-25T13:38:09ZengMDPI AGUrban Science2413-88512025-07-019727010.3390/urbansci9070270Factors Influencing Households’ Willingness to Pay for Advanced Waste Management Services in an Emerging NationShahjahan Ali0Shahnaj Akter1Anita Boros2István Temesi3Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pater Karoly Street-1, 2100 Gödöllő, HungaryDoctoral School of Economic and Regional Sciences, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pater Karoly Street-1, 2100 Gödöllő, HungaryInstitute of Agricultural and Food Economics, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pater Karoly Street-1, 2100 Gödöllő, HungaryInstitute of Agricultural and Food Economics, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pater Karoly Street-1, 2100 Gödöllő, HungaryThis paper analyzes the factors affecting the willingness to pay of urban households concerned with efficient waste management in Bangladesh. The multistage random sampling approach selected 1400 families from seven major cities in Bangladesh. This study addresses the socioeconomic and environmental factors that influence urban households’ willingness to pay for improved waste management services in Bangladesh. This study uniquely contributes to the literature by providing a large-scale empirical analysis of 1470 households using a logit model, revealing income, education, and environmental awareness as key predictors of WTP. Detailed survey data from respondents were then analyzed using a logit model based on the contingent valuation method. Indeed, the logit model showed that six variables (education, monthly income, value of the asset, knowledge of environment, and climate change) had a statistically significant effect on the WTP of the households. The results show that 63% of respondents were willing to pay BDT 250 or more per month. The most influential factors driving this willingness to pay were income (OR = 1.35), education level (OR = 1.45), and environmental awareness (OR = 3.56). These variables all contribute positively towards WTP. The idea is that families have some socioeconomic characteristics, regardless of which they are ready to pay for a higher level of waste collection. It is recommended that government interference be affected through various approaches, as listed below: support for public–private sector undertaking and disposal, an extensive cleaning campaign, decentralized management, cutting waste transport costs, and privatization of some waste management systems. These could be used to develop solutions to better waste management systems and improve public health.https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/9/7/270willingness to paywaste managementlogistic regressionemerging nation |
spellingShingle | Shahjahan Ali Shahnaj Akter Anita Boros István Temesi Factors Influencing Households’ Willingness to Pay for Advanced Waste Management Services in an Emerging Nation Urban Science willingness to pay waste management logistic regression emerging nation |
title | Factors Influencing Households’ Willingness to Pay for Advanced Waste Management Services in an Emerging Nation |
title_full | Factors Influencing Households’ Willingness to Pay for Advanced Waste Management Services in an Emerging Nation |
title_fullStr | Factors Influencing Households’ Willingness to Pay for Advanced Waste Management Services in an Emerging Nation |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Influencing Households’ Willingness to Pay for Advanced Waste Management Services in an Emerging Nation |
title_short | Factors Influencing Households’ Willingness to Pay for Advanced Waste Management Services in an Emerging Nation |
title_sort | factors influencing households willingness to pay for advanced waste management services in an emerging nation |
topic | willingness to pay waste management logistic regression emerging nation |
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