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This study investigates the value of belonging to community for resolving social isolation problem. To examine this purpose, we employ the choice experiment used to estimate the willingness to pay for services and conduct it in internet survey. The estimation results show that the isolation group more prefers relationship with neighborhoods to that with relative and anonymity than non-isolation group does.
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This study was supported by Zenrousai, Service Science, Solutions and Foundation Integrated Research Program (S3FIRE), Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
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Aoki, K., Akai, K., Nishino, N. (2016). The Value of Community for Resolving Social Isolation. In: Maeno, T., Sawatani, Y., Hara, T. (eds) Serviceology for Designing the Future. ICServ 2014. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55861-3_18
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