ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Measuring the Willingness to Pay for Improved
Air Quality: A Contingent Valuation Survey
Magdalena Ligus
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Wrocław University of Economics, Poland, Komandorska 118/120, 54-345 Wrocław, Poland
Submission date: 2017-08-02
Final revision date: 2017-08-13
Acceptance date: 2017-08-15
Online publication date: 2018-01-19
Publication date: 2018-01-26
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2018;27(2):763-771
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This study attempts to estimate how much Polish citizens would be willing to pay for clean air by
applying a contingent valuation of six damage components using the payment card question format:
mortality, morbidity, visibility loss, material damages, damages to cultural heritage, and ecosystem
damages. The system of the valuation questions approach helps to avoid an embedding problem. The
analysis of protest voters is conducted. Although mortality and morbidity remain the most valuable damage
components, the percentage shares of the total willingness to pay are more evenly distributed between all
the damage components compared to literature. Damages to ecosystems and cultural heritage compose
almost 30% of the total value, and their omission by the literature seriously underestimates total benefits.