The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America
Testing is a crucial strategy to control the spread of a pandemic. Voluntary participation in this strategy will depend on individual preferences towards and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for test results. We distributed a web-based, contingent valuation survey to social-media users in 16 Latin American...
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author | Trudeau, Jennifer M. Alicea-Planas, Jessica Vásquez, William F. |
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description | Testing is a crucial strategy to control the spread of a pandemic. Voluntary participation in this strategy will depend on individual preferences towards and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for test results. We distributed a web-based, contingent valuation survey to social-media users in 16 Latin American countries to evaluate regional attitudes towards the emerging COVID-19 outbreak and WTP for COVID-19 testing. We observe that the cost of the test and household income are important determinants of testing intentions. We find higher WTP among those reporting greater concern relative to the average respondent. Accounting for uncertainty, our results indicate a WTP of approximately $45 dollars or 4.2 % of monthly income among respondents. These results, paired with our predicted participation rate of between 84–94 % for a $1 test, suggest that local officials will be able to effectively recruit participation in this mitigation strategy given the appropriate subsidization structure. |
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spelling | pubmed-75501782020-10-13 The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America Trudeau, Jennifer M. Alicea-Planas, Jessica Vásquez, William F. Econ Hum Biol Article Testing is a crucial strategy to control the spread of a pandemic. Voluntary participation in this strategy will depend on individual preferences towards and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for test results. We distributed a web-based, contingent valuation survey to social-media users in 16 Latin American countries to evaluate regional attitudes towards the emerging COVID-19 outbreak and WTP for COVID-19 testing. We observe that the cost of the test and household income are important determinants of testing intentions. We find higher WTP among those reporting greater concern relative to the average respondent. Accounting for uncertainty, our results indicate a WTP of approximately $45 dollars or 4.2 % of monthly income among respondents. These results, paired with our predicted participation rate of between 84–94 % for a $1 test, suggest that local officials will be able to effectively recruit participation in this mitigation strategy given the appropriate subsidization structure. Elsevier B.V. 2020-12 2020-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7550178/ /pubmed/33126025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100931 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Trudeau, Jennifer M. Alicea-Planas, Jessica Vásquez, William F. The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America |
title | The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America |
title_full | The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America |
title_fullStr | The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America |
title_full_unstemmed | The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America |
title_short | The value of COVID-19 tests in Latin America |
title_sort | value of covid-19 tests in latin america |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7550178/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33126025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100931 |
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