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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Carbon Labeling for Consumer Food Goods
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| Autores: |
Shewmake, Sharon
Okrent, Abigail M.
Thabrew, Lanka
Vandenbergh, Michael
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| Data: |
2012-06-01
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| Ano: |
2012
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| Palavras-chave: |
Carbon emissions
Food labeling
Agricultural and Food Policy
Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis
Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Q53
D83
Q18
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| Resumo: |
We construct a model to predict how consumers will respond to better information about the carbon content of 42 foods and a nonfood composite as well as product categories through a label, and provide guidance as to what kinds of goods would provide the highest CO¬2eq emission reductions through a labeling scheme. Our model assumes that consumers value their individual carbon footprint, allowing us to utilize estimates of own- and cross-price elasticities of demand from the literature on demand analysis. We make three different assumptions about how consumers currently value their carbon footprint and find that when a label informs consumers, their baseline perception matters. We also find that carbon labels on alcohol and meat would achieve the largest decreases in carbon emissions.
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| Tipo: |
Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/124369
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| Relação: |
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington
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| Formato: |
29
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