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Provedor de dados:  AgEcon
País:  United States
Título:  Can Information Costs Affect Consumer Choice?—Nutritional Labels in a Supermarket Experiment—
Autores:  Kiesel, Kristin
Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
Data:  2011-10-10
Ano:  2010
Palavras-chave:  Nutritional labeling
Information cost
Scanner data
Market-level experiment
Difference-in-differences
Synthetic control method
Agricultural and Food Policy
Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty
Health Economics and Policy
C93
D01
D18
D83
L51
Resumo:  This paper investigates whether information costs under currently regulated nutritional labeling prevent consumers from making healthier food choices. We implement five nutritional shelf label treatments in a market-level experiment. These labels reduce information costs by highlighting and summarizing information available on the Nutritional Facts Panel. Following a difference-in-differences and synthetic control method approach, we analyze weekly store-level scanner data for microwave popcorn purchases from treatment and control stores. Our results suggest that consumer purchases are affected by information costs. Implemented low calorie and no trans fat labels increase sales. In contrast, implemented low fat labels decrease sales, suggesting that consumer response is also influenced by consumers’ taste perceptions. A combination of these claims into one label treatment increases information costs and does not affect sales significantly.
Tipo:  Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma:  Inglês
Identificador:  http://purl.umn.edu/116433
Relação:  European Association of Agricultural Economists>115th Joint EAAE/AAEA Seminar, September 15-17, 2010, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Formato:  37
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