SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie; Tsegai, Daniel W..

The purpose of this study is to analyze the demand responses of Indonesian households to food prices, income changes and other socioeconomic factors. The underlying assumption here is that inadequate information on household food expenditure patterns which vary across income groups and regions may have its contribution to the persistence of food insecurity. We use the Indonesian Family Life Survey data and methodologically we employ an extended form of the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model which includes demographic and regional factors. Results reveal the well known pattern that food demand behavior varies significantly between urban and rural households as well as income groups. The poorest households consume relatively more staple food as well...

Advertising in the U.S. Non-Alcoholic Beverage Industry: Are Spillover Effects Negative or Positive? Revisited using a Dynamic Approach

Palavras-chave: Food demand; QUAIDS; Indonesia; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D11; D12.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116748

Dharmasena, Senarath; Capps, Oral, Jr.; Clauson, Annette L..

Price Sensitivities for U.S. Frozen Dairy Products

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; D11; D12.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61321

Maynard, Leigh J.; Veeramani, Venkat N..

Price elasticities and flexibilities for frozen dessert products were estimated from weekly scanner data, with emphasis on functional form selection, system misspecification testing, and endogeneity testing. Reciprocals of elasticities and elasticity matrix inversion were invalid means of obtaining flexibility estimates, leaving direct estimation as the only viable, albeit resource-intensive, approach.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Dairy; Demand; Price elasticities; Price flexibilities; C32; C52; D11; D12; Q11.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43194

Spatial Price Competition in the Non-Alcoholic Beverage Industry in the United States

Effects of Information on Consumer Risk Perception and Willingness to Pay for Non-Genetically Modified Corn Oil

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Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Non-alcoholic beverages; Spatial price competition; Nielsen data; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; Marketing; C21; D11; L11.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124255

Terawaki, Taku.

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/16/05.

Economic Factors and Body Weight: An Empirical Analysis

Palavras-chave: Genetically Modified; Contingent Valuation; Willingness to Pay; Risk Perception; Consumer/Household Economics; D12; D11; C35; D81.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19555

Schroeter, Christiane; Lusk, Jayson L..

With this study, we investigate the effects of changes in economic factors on body weight by constructing a utility theoretic model. The model is empirically estimated by combining data on individuals’ body weight, demographic and physical activity information, and statelevel measures pertaining to the prices of food away from home, food at home, and wages. By combining these data sources, we aim to estimate directly the weight effects of price and income changes. The empirical analysis suggests that decreasing the price of food at home could decrease body weight, a finding which has important public policy implications.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Body mass index; Body weight; Obesity; Subsidy; Tax; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; D11; D12; I18; H20; R22.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46991

Quality Signaling through Certification

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Schilizzi, Steven.

This paper analyzes the problem raised by quality provision in globalizing economies. When quality is a credence attribute, there is a signaling problem and quality drops to its minimum level. A way out of this under-provision equilibrium consists to rely on certification. However certification of goods involves costs, most of which are fixed, because to credibly signal quality, the certification process has to be carry out by an independent authority above all suspicion. The certification costs, which might justify a centralized intervention, become a major force in deciding market structure. Then in a given population the rate of certification depends on the consumers' wealth and size. If the population is too poor the market for certification collapses...

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; D11; D21; L11; L15..

Ano: 2000

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123598

Partial versus General Equilibrium Calorie and Revenue Effects of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax

Dharmasena, Senarath; Davis, George C.; Capps, Oral, Jr..

The current obesity crisis in the United States is generating numerous alternative policy options for combating the problem. One alternative that has been widely proposed is an excise or sales tax on sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages. This literature started out within a very simple partial equilibrium framework. Not considering the feedback effects (or general equilibrium effects) across interrelated market is a shortcoming of these partial equilibrium analyses. Our study is carried out to ascertain stochastic partial and general equilibrium calorie, body weight and revenue effects of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages as well as incidence of such tax. We used Nielsen Homescan data on prices and quantities of selected non-alcoholic beverages...

Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Palavras-chave: Partial equilibrium; General equilibrium; Tax effects; Sugar-sweetened beverages; Beverage tax; Calorie effects; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D11; D12; I18.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103509

Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean S.; Yin, Wesley.

We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control methodology. The savings product was intended for individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who were sophisticated enough to engage in such a mechanism. We conducted a baseline survey on 1777 existing or former clients of a bank. One month later, we offered the commitment product to a randomly chosen subset of 710 clients; 202 (28.4 percent) accepted the offer and opened the account. In the baseline survey, we asked hypothetical time discounting questions. Women who exhibited a lower discount rate for future relative to current tradeoffs, and hence potentially have a preference for commitment, were indeed...

ASYMMETRY IN RAW MILK SAFETY PERCEPTIONS AND INFORMATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR RISK IN FRESH PRODUCE MARKETING AND POLICY

Palavras-chave: Savings; Commitment; Hyperbolic preferences; Microfinance; Development economics; Program evaluation; Field experiment; Self-control; Financial Economics; C93; D01; D11; D12; D14; D81; D91; G11; O12.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28411

Knutson, Ronald D.; Currier, Russell W.; Ribera, Luis A.; Goeringer, L. Paul.

Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantial disease-inducing health risks. While federal U.S. policy mandates that milk moving in interstate commerce be pasteurized; within 41 of 50 states, raw milk can be obtained for consumption. Warning labels notwithstanding, a segment of U.S. consumers pays higher prices for higher-risk raw milk than for either organic or conventional milk. The behavioral factors leading to raw milk consumption are explored. The paternalistic regulatory options for reducing the risk associated with drinking raw milk are identified. Implications for fresh produce sold directly from farms to consumers or through farmers markets are drawn.

Demand Interrelationships of At-Home Nonalcoholic Beverage Consumption in the United States

Palavras-chave: Raw milk; Pasteurization; Health risks; Behavioral economics; Bounded rationality; Paternalistic regulations; Public health; HACCP; GLOBALG.A.P.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; A12; A13; A14; D11; D18; D46; D71; D78; D82; I18; K23; K32; Q11; Q18.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116440

In this study we modeled demand interrelationships of at-home nonalcoholic beverage consumption in the United States using a unique data set developed using Nielsen HomeScan panel data of household purchases of nonalcoholic beverages over the period January 1998 through December 2003. We used 72 monthly observations of expenditure shares, real prices and real per capita expenditures of 10 unique categories of nonalcoholic beverages in a full-blown AIDS model with an adjustment for seasonal (quarterly) variability in data. Compared to similar studies done in the past, our study used a rich delineation of nonalcoholic beverage categories, and in particular introduced isotonics for the first time. Furthermore, our study provided more information about...

The Complex Interaction of Markets For Endangered Species Products

Palavras-chave: Nonalcoholic beverage demand; AIDS model; Nielsen HomeScan data; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D11; D12.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49443

Fischer, Carolyn.

Economic models of trade in endangered species products often do not incorporate four focal arguments in the policy debate over trade bans: 1) law-abiding consumers may operate in another market, separate from illegal consumers, that trade would bring online; 2) legal trade reduces stigma, which affects demand of law-abiding consumers; 3) laundering may bring illegal goods to legal markets when trade is allowed; 4) legal sales may affect illegal supply costs. This paper analyzes systematically which aspects of these complicated markets, separately or in combination, are important for determining whether limited legalized trade in otherwise illegal goods can be helpful for achieving policy goals like reducing poaching.

Market Competitiveness and Demographic Profiles of Dairy Alternative Beverages in the United States: The Case of Soymilk

Palavras-chave: Endangered species; Black markets; CITES; Poaching; Stigma; Environmental Economics and Policy; K42; Q21; D11.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10525

Demographic and Economic Profiling of U.S. Demand for Probiotics: The Case of Drinkable Yogurt

Data from U.S. households for year 2008 were used in examining market competitiveness of soymilk using tobit procedure. Unconditional own- and cross-price elasticities are larger than their conditional counterparts. Income, age, employment status, education level, race, ethnicity, region and presence of children are significant drivers affecting the demand for soymilk.

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Soymilk; White milk; Flavored milk; Nielsen HomeScan data; Tobit procedure; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing; D11; D12.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119680

Data from U.S. households for calendar year 2008 were used in examining demographic and economic factors affecting demand for drinkable yogurts using Heckman two-step procedure. Price, region, race and gender of household head were significant drivers of consumption of drinkable yogurts. Statistically significant sample selection bias was observed.

Demand for Food of Indonesian Households: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Palavras-chave: Probiotics; Drinkable yogurts; Nielsen HomeScan data; Heckman two-step; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; D11; D12.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98743

Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie.

Investigating affordability problems of utility services – A theoretical study on the ratio measure

Palavras-chave: Food demand; QUAIDS; Indonesia; Consumer/Household Economics; D11; D12.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103429

Gawel, Erik; Bretschneider, Wolfgang.

Unlike in developing countries, there tends to be no problem of access to water, electricity, and heating for private households in transition countries. However, transition countries have a considerable amount of low-income households, and the problem of affordability of these environmental-related utility services remains urgent. Welfare economics literature suggests to neglect affordability aspects by separating allocative from distributive impacts of pricing. In practice, this separation runs the risk of rendering impossible any sustainability-oriented price reform. An Institutional Economics approach takes competing objectives into account. From this viewpoint it appears to be worth investigating the affordability-concept. Although the...

Quantifying the Structure of Food Demand in China Using a Generalized Quadratic AIDS Specification

Palavras-chave: Affordability; Transition Countries; Utility Services; Agricultural and Food Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Political Economy; D11; H41; L97; O15; Q56.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90795

Hovhannisyan, Vardges; Gould, Brian W..

This manuscript is used to examine food demand structure and its dynamics for 11 commodities in urban China. The analysis is based on household-level expenditure survey data for two cross-sectional surveys of Chinese households pertaining to food expenditure patterns during 1995 and 2003. A major focus of this presentation is on the pre-committed component of demand that is not accounted for by economic and demographic characteristics. We use the generalized quadratic almost ideal demand system (GQAIDS) for its empirical superiority to the GAIDS, and estimate the associated parameters via a full information maximum likelihood procedure (FIML) procedure, where we test for whether total food expenditure for home consumption (FAH) is endogenous. We also use...

Demographic and Economic Profiling of U.S. Demand for Non-Alcoholic Beverages 1998-2003: A Household Level Two-Step Analysis

Palavras-chave: Generalized Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System; Pre-committed demand; Expenditure endogeneity; Food preferences.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D11; D12.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56422

An Economic-Psychological Model of Sustainable Food Consumption

Palavras-chave: Non-alcoholic beverages; Heckman two-step analysis; Demographic profiling; Probability of consumption; Level of consumption; Nielsen HomeScan data; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D11; D12.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56257

Lombardini, Chiara; Lankoski, Leena.

This paper proposes a novel economic-psychological model of individual food consumption and food waste that recognizes individuals as social and moral beings who are boundedly rational and have limited capacity for self-control. The model identifies five components of individuals’ utility that correspond to five modes of being or selves: the hedonic agent, the social agent, the moral agent, the health-conscious agent and the habits-driven agent. In the model, individuals maximize this composite utility given their budget and effort constraints. We apply the model to analyze policies that can support the adoption of sustainable food consumption practices.

A Flexible Multistage Demand System Based on Indirect Separability

Palavras-chave: Bounded rationality; Bounded self-control; Habits; Identity; Social and moral norms; Sustainable food consumption; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D03; D11; D12.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114403

Moschini, GianCarlo.

The notion of indirect separability is exploited to derive a new multistage demand system. The model allows a consistent parameterization of demand relations at various budgeting stages and it fulfills the requirement of flexibility while satisfying separability globally. Two propositions are derived to characterize flexible and separable functional forms, which lead to the specification of a flexible and separable translog (FAST) demand system. The model is particularly attractive for modeling large complete demand systems, and is illustrated with an application to Canadian food demand.