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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Concerns for Fairness and Preferences for Organic Food	
Autores: 	Chang,   Jae Bong; Lusk,   Jayson L.	
Data: 	2008-05-05	
Ano: 	2008	
Palavras-chave: 	Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.	
Resumo: 	Recent findings from behavioral economics suggest people are concerned about the fairness and inequality in simple distribution experiments.  This study sought to determine whether such considerations also carry over to food choice.  A conjoint-type experiment was developed and administered to a random sample of the U.S. population via mail survey to determine whether consumers, when purchasing food products, are concerned about the distribution of benefits across the participants in the agricultural supply chain (small farmers, large farmers, agribusiness, supermarkets, and the consumer) and to determine the extent to which the fairness models proposed in the general economics literature (and variants on these models) explain food choice.  Results indicate that, aside from themselves, people prefer small farmers to receive the largest benefit from food purchase.  The inequality aversion models proposed in the general economics literature do not exhibit much explanatory power, unless modified in non-trivial ways to fit the context of food.  Finally, we find that preferences for distribution of benefits, along with measured beliefs about the relative distribution of benefits accruing to producers of organic and conventional foods, is a significant factor explaining consumer willingness-to-pay a premium for organic food.	
Tipo: 	Conference Paper or Presentation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	30095

http://purl.umn.edu/6414	
Relação: 	American Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida

Selected Paper

465200	
Formato: 	24