Estimation of Deprivation Level Functions using a Numerical Rating Scale

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wang, Xihui; Wang, Xiang; Liang, Liang; Yue, Xiaohang; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
• 署名单位: Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; INSEAD Business School
• 刊物名称: PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1059-1478
• DOI: 10.1111/poms.12760
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 2137-2150
• 关键词: equilibrium returns policies; supply chain profits; price-discrimination; retailer incentives; channel structure; COMPETITION; promotions; search

摘要

Evaluating and quantifying human suffering in humanitarian operations offers an innovative and potentially powerful way to assess the performance of humanitarian logistics (HL) and help build optimization models. Previous studies have suggested deprivation cost as a metric and have estimated deprivation cost functions for water using willingness-to-pay. Our study proposes deprivation levels, defined as the degree of human suffering caused by lack of access to a good or service, and estimates deprivation level functions using a numerical rating scale. Analyzing data collected from respondents with and without disaster experience, we find that individuals in the latter category estimate deprivation differently from the beneficiaries of disaster relief. Our study demonstrates that deprivation levels can be expressed as logistic growth functions with a typical S-shape, and that these can be integrated into HL optimization models to better account for human suffering.