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Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Biodegradable Containers Than for Plastic Ones? Evidence from Hypothetical Conjoint Analysis and Nonhypothetical Experimental Auctions
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Yue,   Chengyan; Hall,   Charles R.; Behe,   Bridget K.; Campbell,   Benjamin L.; Dennis,   Jennifer H.; Lopez,   Roberto G.
This study used and compared hypothetical conjoint analysis and nonhypothetical experimental auctions to elicit floral customers’ willingness to pay for biodegradable plant containers. The results of the study show that participants were willing to pay a price premium for biodegradable containers, but the premium is not the same for different types of containers. This article also shows the mixed ordered probit model generates more accurate results when analyzing the conjoint analysis Internet survey data than the ordered probit model.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Biodegradable; Willingness to pay; Marketing; Carbon footprint; Waste composition; Green industry; Nursery crops; Floriculture crops; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Financial Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; Public Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100524

Estimation of a Censored AIDS Model: A Simulated Amemiya-Tobin Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dong,   Diansheng; Kaiser,   Harry M.
Kuhn-Tucker approach and its dual have been proposed to the demand system estimation when there are non-negativity bindings. However, empirical researchers have been struggling two decades in applying this method into practice due to: (1) the difficulty in derivation of a coherent econometric model, and (2) the cumbersome evaluation of high order probability integrals needed in parameter estimation. In this paper, we avoid the above two issues by using the Amemiya-Tobin demand system approach and the simulation procedure to evaluate the probability integrals. An AIDS model is estimated and the elasticities are obtained that are impossible to achieve when using Kuhn-Tucker approach. The model is applied to an analysis of Canadian household food demand.
Tipo: Technical Report
Palavras-chave: Amemiya-Tobin; Censored demand system; AIDS model; Probability simulation; Canadian household food demand; Demand and Price Analysis; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; C34; D12.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122113

Expert opinion and cuisine reputation in the market for restaurant meals
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fogarty,   James Joseph.
As food is an experience good, the market for restaurant meals is a market where the cost of acquiring information regarding quality is relatively high. In such markets consumers often turn to reputation measures to guide purchase decisions. As Australia does not have a longstanding cuisine style of its own, and given Australia has been open to substantial immigration inflows since federation, it represents an especially appropriate market to study regarding the impact of individual restaurant reputation and collective cuisine reputation on meal prices. The following study uses the hedonic price approach to investigate the implicit price of individual reputation indicators, cuisine type reputation indicators, and other objective indicators in the market...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Expert Opinion; Food; Hedonic Pricing; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; R22.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108666

Full Rank Rational Demand Systems
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: LaFrance,   Jeffrey T.; Pope,   Rulon D.
We extend the set of full rank nominal and deflated income demand systems to rational demand systems of any rank and present a unifying expression for the indirect preferences of all full rank demand models.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Aggregation; Functional form; Integrability; Rank; Rational demand systems; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; E21.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7152

Consumer Willingness to Pay for Breads Marketed as "Low-Carbohydrate"
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Wachenheim,   Cheryl J.; Nganje,   William E.; Kaitibie,   Simeon; Johnston,   Gretchen.
Bread producers are taking advantage of healthy feeding habits by developing new "low carbohydrate" products to entice customers.  These low carbohydrate breads are generally more expensive than conventional types.  This study tests the hypothesis that consumers are willing to pay higher premium for "low carbohydrate" breads at various locations and markets. We use retail data in a hedonic pricing framework to estimate the premium paid for the "low carbohydrate" attribute of bread.  Results show that the implicit price of the "low carbohydrate" attribute of bread ranges from about 0.06¢ to 1.1¢ per gram, reflecting the amount consumers are willing to pay above the price of conventional bread.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Low carbohydrate bread; Hedonic price; Willingness to pay; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; D12.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19428

Auction Markets for Specialty Food Products with Geographical Indications
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Schamel,   Guenter.
We present a first analysis of auction markets for specialty food products. We identify auction prices, trade volume and value for domestic and foreign origin specialty ham with geographical indications (GIs) which were actually sold in online auctions in Germany within a one-month period. Applying hedonic modeling, we examine potential factors that may influence online bidding behavior and final auction prices. We estimate positive auction price effects for weight, bidding activity, and auction length, that the domestic product is sold at a discount, that higher shipping cost have a negative impact on final prices, and that auctions ending on Fridays and Saturdays yield lower prices. The model may be used to estimate the value of GIs. In our example, we...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer economics; Geographical indications; Auctions; Information; Marketing; D12; D44; D83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25606

Seafood Label Effectiveness in the Amherst Market: A Study of the Quality and Quantity of Point of Purchase Information
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Wagstaff,   James.
As evidenced by the recent release of a comprehensive Institute of Medicine report on seafood consumption and by the passage of the 2002 Farm Bill, it is clear that there is growing concern about the health benefits and risks of fish consumption. This research project was designed to analyze the seafood market in Amherst, Massachusetts, and, specifically, to explore the effectiveness of seafood product labeling provided by the largest retailers in the area. Studying the availability of seafood and the associated labeling practices reveals how the Amherst market meets the needs of different consumers. While each venue generally adheres to the regulatory requirements of seafood labeling, this research includes recommendations as to how the market might...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Seafood; Country of Origin Labeling; Retail Availability; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; D12; L15; Q18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7388

ARE THE TOTAL DAILY COST OF FOOD AND DIET QUALITY RELATED: A RANDOM EFFECTS PANEL DATA ANALYSIS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Carlson,   Andrea; Dong,   Diansheng; Lino,   Mark.
There is a common perception that healthy food costs more than less healthy food. In this study we use a demand model for diet quality, rather than the quantity of food. Since in our data, total daily cost and diet quality are both calculated from the foods chosen, we account for the fact that cost is endogenous. We find that while total daily food cost is statistically significant in relation to diet quality, the degree of association is very small. Hence, it does not appear that cost alone prevents individuals in the United States from purchasing a healthy diet. Other factors such as food culture and environment, health behaviours, and demographics are more important. Our findings suggest that the choice to consume a healthy diet is very complicated.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Diet cost; Cost of food; Food culture; Diet quality; HEI-2005; Random effects model; Demand model; NHANES; MPED; CNPP Food Prices Database; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12; C3.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116395

Influence of generalized trust on Canadian consumers’ reactions to the perceived food risk of three recurring BSE cases
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ding,   Yulian; Veeman,   Michele M.; Adamowicz,   Wiktor L.
Interest in the influence of trust on consumers’ responses to food risk perceptions associated with Canadian instances of BSE motivates this study, in which Canadian households’ expenditures on fresh meat are assessed in the context of the first three recurring risk events in which bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was found to have affected Canadian cows. Engel Curve analysis focusing on the dynamics of the monthly meat expenditure shares for a selected sample of 437 Canadian households for 2002 through 2005 is applied based on data on household expenditures for meat purchased by a national sample of Canadian households from the Nielsen Homescan® Canadian panel, supplemented by survey responses on BSE risk perceptions and measures of trust. Two sets...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: BSE; Generalized Method of Moments (GMM); Trust; Consumer/Household Economics; D12; C29.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100725

Consumer Awareness, Perceptions and Behaviour Towards Farmed Versus Wild Fish
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Verbeke,   Wim; Brunso,   Karen.
This study provides empirical evidence about European consumer awareness, perceptions and behavior towards farmed and wild fish.  The evidence is based on three empirical studies: a consumer survey in Belgium in March 2003, focus group discussions with consumers in Belgium and Spain in May 2004, and a pan-European consumer survey with a sample of 4,786 fish consumers in Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Span and Poland in November-December 2004.  Consumer awareness about the farmed or wild origin of fish is rather poor, particular among lighter fish user groups.  Perceptions are quite diverse across Europe.  Furthermore, perceptions often contrast with current scientific evidence, in particular with respect to behalf and nutritional value where consumers...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Attitude; Aquaculture; Consumer; Fish; SEAFOODplus; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries; D12; M31; Q13; Q22.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56075

THE ROLE OF PRODUCTION METHODS IN FRUIT PURCHASING BEHAVIOUR: HYPOTHETICAL VS ACTUAL CONSUMERS’ PREFERENCES AND STATED MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Moser,   Riccarda; Raffaelli,   Roberta; Notaro,   Sandra.
In recent years, concerns for potential risks on human health related to the overuse of chemical pesticides have encouraged research of alternatives production methods as integrated pest management (IPM) and organic agriculture. Consumer preferences for these practices or for new product characteristics often have been evaluated using stated preference techniques such as Choice Experiment (CE). Nevertheless, it has been found that in these surveys respondents generally report higher hypothetical than real willingness to pay, providing the existence of the so-called “hypothetical bias”. While the presence of this bias has been widely reported in Contingent Valuation, its investigation in CE is still at the beginning. Moreover, in most of the cases, the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Fruit purchasing behaviour; Production methods; Mitigation practices; Hypothetical bias; Real choice experiment; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C35; Q18; D12; C93.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116426

Consumer Attitudes, Willingness to Pay and Revealed Preferences for Different Egg Production Attributes: Analysis of Canadian Egg Consumers
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Goddard,   Ellen W.; Boxall,   Peter C.; Emunu,   John Paul; Boyd,   Curtis; Asselin,   Andre; Neall,   Amanda.
The Canadian egg industry has introduced a number of specialty eggs, including Omega-3, organic, free run/range, vitamin enhanced and vegetarian over the past few decades. These eggs are generally sold at prices higher than the ‘normal’ egg and there has been little analysis of the consumer awareness of and interest in purchasing these eggs. All previous econometric analysis of the Canadian egg market has assumed eggs and consumers are homogeneous. This study makes use of Stated preference and Revealed preference data to model the consumer interest in the different egg types. Stated preference surveys were conducted in two separate years: 2005 during which consumers were surveyed on their interest in Omega-3 and Vitamin Enhanced eggs relative to ‘normal’...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer behaviour; Egg consumption; Differentiated products; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; D12; Q11; Q18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52087

Aggregation Theory for Incomplete Systems
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: LaFrance,   Jeffrey T.; Beatty,   Timothy K.M.; Pope,   Rulon D.
Gorman's theory of demand is extended comprehensively to incomplete systems. The incomplete systems approach dramatically increases this class of models. The separate roles of symmetry and adding up are identified in the rank and the functional form of this class of models. We show that symmetry determines rank and the maximum rank is three. We show that adding up and 0o homogeneity determines the functional form and there is no functional form restriction for an incomplete system. We prove that every full rank system and reduced rank systems with a minimal level of degeneracy can be written as a polynomial in a single function of income. A complete set of closed form solutions for the indirect objective functions of this class of models is derived. A...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Aggregation; Rank; Functional form; Integrability; Incomplete systems; Weak integrability; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; E21.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25033

Factores determinantes del precio de la carne de ternera: un analisis hedonico
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Royo,   Azucena Gracia; Perez y Perez,   Luis.
El mercado de la carne se ha visto afectado por las recientes crisis alimentarias. La decisión del consumo se ve afectada por el precio, y éste por  las características del producto y otros factores que pueden influir en la utilidad del consumidor. A través de la metodología de los precios hedónicos, nuestro objetivo es determinar el valor económico asignado por el consumidor a las características de la carne que influyen en su decisión de compra. Se utiliza información proporcionada por dos encuestas a 540 consumidores de la ciudad de Zaragoza en 2001 y 2002. En la estimación econométrica se asume una forma funcional flexible, a partir de una transformación Box-Cox, lo que resuelve  el problema de la forma funcional. Los resultados muestran que la...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Beef market; Hedonic prices; Box-Cox transformation; Designation of origin; Econometric estimation; Demand and Price Analysis; B23; C42; D12; H31.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28777

DEMAND FOR BREAKFAST CEREALS: WHOLE GRAINS GUIDANCE AND FOOD CHOICE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ishdorj,   Ariun; Jensen,   Helen H.
When using household-level data to examine consumer demand it is common to find that consumers purchase only a subset of the available goods, setting the demand for the remaining goods to zero. Ignoring such censoring of the dependent variables can lead to estimators with poor statistical properties and estimates that lead to poor policy decisions. In this paper we investigate household demand for four types of breakfast cereals, such as whole grain ready-to-eat, non-whole grain ready-to-eat, whole grain hot and non-whole grain hot cereals, using a censored Al- most Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and estimate the parameters of the model via Bayesian methods. Using household level scanner data (ACNielsen Homescan) we find that demand for all types of breakfast...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: AIDS model; Bayesian econometrics; Censored; Cereals; Whole grains; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C11; C34; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116445

Comparison of Perception of Risk and Willingness to Consume GM Foods
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Wachenheim,   Cheryl J.; Nganje,   William E.; Lesch,   William C.
The dichotomy between perceptions of the acceptability of risk associated with genetically modified (GM) foods and willingness to consume GM foods is investigated. Results indicate that some consumers are willing to consume GM foods even though they may perceive such foods as somewhat unsafe, with determinants such as self-perceived knowledge about the availability of GM foods and altruistic motives having positive and significant impacts on their consumption decision. Efforts towards decreasing perceptions of risk and ultimately increasing acceptance of, and demand for, GM foods should address issues related to their altruistic characteristics and outrage.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Genetic modified foods; Multinomial logit; Risk perception; Willingness to consume GM foods; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q19; D12.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6876

‘GMO-Free’ Labels – Enhancing Transparency or Deceiving Consumers?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Henseleit,   Meike; Kubitzki,   Sabine.
Since most consumers particularly in industrialised countries are concerned about the application of genetic engineering in food production, producers in many nations got the opportunity to label products as free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by the introduction of legal regulations. Standards of these regulations for labelling food products ‘GMO-free’ usually relate to product itself, not to the process of production. Therefore, it is quite possible that consumers’ understanding of ‘GMO-free’ differs from what the label actually stands for, especially regarding animal products. We conducted a consumer survey in order to explore potential gaps between their ideas of ‘GMO-free’ food and what the label actually stands for at the example of the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Genetic Engineering; Food Labelling; Consumer Survey; Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; D81; Q18.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51029

Beef Labeling After BSE: Do Consumers Care about BSE Testing and GMO Labeling? Evidence from Canada and the US
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Steiner,   Bodo E.; Yang,   Jun.
Following the May 2003 Canadian BSE case, food safety issues have become even more prominent to policymakers and consumers. In both Canada and the US, governments and industry have responded with a variety of quality assurance, traceability and labeling schemes. However, there is little information available on the extent to which consumer perceptions differ regionally across North America towards labeling schemes. This paper attempts to fill this gap, by providing results on a variety of beef labeling strategies from choice experiments that were conducted in Alberta (Canada) and Montana (US). The analysis focuses on consumers' perceptions towards negative voluntary labeling with regard to BSE testing, genetically modified organisms (GMO) and the use of...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Choice experiments; Multinomial logit; Beef labeling; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; L66; C35.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6836

Consumer Acceptance of GM Applications in the Pork Production Chain: A Choice Modelling Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Novoselova,   Tatiana A.; van der Lans,   Ivo A.C.M.; Meuwissen,   Miranda P.M.; Huirne,   Ruud B.M.
This study evaluates consumer acceptance of different GM applications in the pork production chain. In general, results indicate that consumers prefer conventional pork over pork for which genetic modification was applied. However, the negative impact of the GM applications is compensated by improvements in quality, increased animal welfare, a lower impact on the environment, less residues and a price discount. Of these benefits, increased animal welfare has the most positive effect on consumer choices. With substantial monetary compensation and presence of various benefits the consumers will attach higher utility to the GM pork than to the conventional pork. The amount of monetary compensation is dependent on the type of GM application.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer acceptance; Genetic modification; Choice modelling; Consumer/Household Economics; C25; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24527

A Latent-Variable Approach to Modelling Multiple and Resurgent Meat Scares in Italy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mazzocchi,   Mario; Lobb,   Alexandra E.
This paper aims to measure the time pattern of multiple and resurgent food scares and their direct and cross-product impacts on consumer response. The Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) is augmented by a flexible stochastic framework which has no need for additional explanatory variables such as a media index. Italian aggregate household data on meat demand is used to assess the time-varying impact of a resurgent BSE crisis (1996 and 2000) and the 1999 Dioxin crisis. The impact of the first BSE crisis on preferences seems to be reabsorbed after a few months. The second wave of the scare at the end of 2000 had a much stronger effect on preferences and the positive shift in chicken demand continued to persist after the onset of the crisis. Empirical results...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Meat demand; BSE; Shock; Almost Ideal Demand System; Kalman filter; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; I12.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24509

Effect of promoting country of origin as an ethnocentric appeal in developing local brands: special reference to telecommunication industry of Sri Lanka
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Weerasiri,   Sudath; Dissanayake,   Ravindra.
Sri Lanka is emerging as service sector driven economy with the GDP penetration of 50%-60% from service sector. After imposing the open economy policy in 1977, local brands had to gear ahead with intensive competition came from international brands. Telecommunication industry of Sri Lanka has been dominated by international brands, but local brands are strategically promoting the concept of country of origin (CO) or being local as a motive for citizens to deliberately purchase locally originated brands. In this context researchers viewed this branding practice, and selected 200 respondents from four geographical areas under the stratified probability sampling method to investigate the effect of country of origin in terms of brand performance. Both...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Country of origin; Ethnocentrism; Local brands; Telecommunication.; Consumer/Household Economics; D12; L96.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94668

Determinants of Meats Purchase Behavior by Ethnic Groups
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Garcia-Jimenez,   Carlos I.; Mishra,   Ashok K.
Farmers and food companies need to assess their production and marketing strategies for nurturing business opportunities that will arise from the simultaneous increase in population and income of Hispanics in the United States. Previous studies on demand for meat products have not received much attention on the determinants of meats purchase behavior by Hispanics in relation to other ethnic groups. This study investigates the impact of ethnicity and the determinants of meats purchase behavior in the U.S. by using single Probit equations. The analyzed data comes from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey. The results indicate that ethnicity plays an important role in the purchase behavior of meat products, as well as household size and income.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer behavior; Marketing; Food demand; Hispanic food; Hispanic food market; Latin foods; Comida latina; Alimentos; Ethnic foods; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Industrial Organization; Marketing; D01; D03; D12; L14; L66; M31; M37.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61073

Demand Analysis for Fish in Tunisia: An Empirical Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dhehibi,   Boubaker; Lachaal,   Lassaad; Chebil,   Ali.
The aim of this paper is to analyze and determine the factors influencing fish demand in Tunisia during the 1975-2000 period. A Box-Cox transformation is used to select the appropriate functional form between linear and double-log models. Results indicate that the double-log form fits better the data and is used for the empirical analysis. Calculated elasticities from static model show that fish demand is price-inelastic and that fish can be considered as a normal good. However, the dynamic analysis using Houthakker-Taylor model suggests that fish consumption in Tunisia depends on consumers psychological-buying habits. Finally, the values of the short and the long-run elasticities indicate that per capita consumption of fish in Tunisia is growing, but at a...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Fish demand; Box-Cox transformation; Double-log model; Tunisia; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; C22.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24715

Convergence or Divergence in Food Demand:  Comparison of Trends in the EU and North America
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Regmi,   Anita; Unnevehr,   Laurian J.
Whether food demand is "converging" is tested in two ways. First, the convergence of food expenditures among 18 high-income countries is examined from 1990 to 2004. Convergence is apparent in total expenditures, cereals, and meats, even after correcting for differences in income and levels of protection. Second, specific food retailing and product introduction patterns are examined for the US, Canada, and four northern European countries for the past two decades. These show increasing shares for retail outlets selling standardized products, and increased preference for convenience, upscale, and natural product attributes across all six countries.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food expenditures; Product attributes; Convergence; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24687

Price Elasticities of Demand for Food Away From Home (FAFH)
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Levedahl,   J. William.
Using a procedure by Deaton (1990) and data from a cross-sectional survey by CREST price elasticities of demand for three types of FAFH facilities are computed.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Price Elasticity of Demand; Food Away from Home; Cross-sectional data; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; C21.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103243

Meat Demand in South Korea: An Application of the Restricted Source-Differentiated Almost Ideal Demand System Model
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Henneberry,   Shida Rastegari; Hwang,   Seonghuyk.
The first difference version of the restricted source-differentiated almost ideal demand system is used to estimate South Korean meat demand. The results of this study indicate that the United States has the most to gain from an increase in the size of the South Korean imported meat market in terms of its beef exports, while South Korea has the most to gain from this expansion in the pork market. Moreover, the results indicate that the United States has a competitive advantage to Australia in the South Korean beef market. Results of this study have implications for U.S. meat exports in this ever-changing policy environment.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: AIDS; Source differentiation; South Korean meat demand; U.S. competitiveness; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; Q17.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6633

Retail and Wholesale Market Power in Organic Foods
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Richards,   Timothy J.; Acharya,   Ram N.; Molina,   Ignacio.
The demand for organic fresh fruits and vegetable continues to grow at a rate far higher than the rest of the produce industry.  The cost of meeting organic certification standards, however, has meant that supply has been slow to adjust.  With limited supply, we hypothesize that organic suppliers enjoy more market power in bargaining over their share of the retail-production cost margin for fresh apples.  We test this hypothesis using a random parameters, generalized extreme value demand model (mixed logit) combined with a structural model of retail and wholesale pricing that allows conduct to vary by product attributes (organic or non-organic) and time. We find that organic growers do indeed earn a larger share of the total margin than non-organic...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Organics; Market power; Mixed logit; Game theory; Non-linear pricing.; Industrial Organization; C35; D12; D43; L13; L41; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49329

Do Consumers React to the Shape of Supply? Water Demand under Heterogeneous Price Structures
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Olmstead,   Sheila M.; Hanemann,   W. Michael; Stavins,   Robert N.
Urban water pricing provides an opportunity to examine whether consumers react to the shape of supply functions. We carry out an empirical analysis of the influence of price and price structure on residential water demand, using the most price-diverse, detailed, household-level water demand data yet available for this purpose. We adapt the Hausman model of labor supply under progressive income taxation to estimate water demand under non-linear prices. Ours is the first analysis to address both the simultaneous determination of marginal price and water demand under block pricing and the possibility of endogenous price structures in the cross section. In order to examine the possibility that consumers facing block prices are more price-responsive, all else...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Non-linear pricing; Water demand; Price elasticity; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; D12; Q21; Q25; Q28; L95.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10672

Food Demand Analysis of Indonesian Households with Particular Attention to the Poorest
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
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

Advertising in the U.S. Non-Alcoholic Beverage Industry: Are Spillover Effects Negative or Positive? Revisited using a Dynamic Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.; Clauson,   Annette L.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; D11; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61321

An Analysis of Demand Elasticities for Fluid Milk Products in the U.S.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Davis,   Christopher G.; Blayney,   Donald P.; Cooper,   Joseph C.; Yen,   Steven T.
This study examines retail fluid milk products purchase data from Nielsen 2005 home scan data. The demand for seven categories of fluid milk products were estimated: whole milk, whole flavored milk, reduced fat milk, flavored reduced fat milk, buttermilk, canned milk and all other fluid milk products.  Analyses of the purchases of seven fluid milk categories based on the Nielsen 2005 home scan retail data are used to determine the roles marital status, age, race, education, female employment status and location play in the empirical estimations of aggregate demand elasticities.  To derive the demand elasticities, a censored translog demand system is used.  The results reveal that price and income are the main determinants of demand for fluid milk products...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Nielsen home scan retail data; Milk demand; Elasticities; Fluid milk; Reduced fat milk; Whole milk; Flavored milk; Canned milk; Buttermilk; Non-linear AIDS; Censored translog demand system; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; C25; D12; Q11.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51791

An Empirical Investigation of Interproduct Relationships Between Domestic and Imported Seafood in the U.S.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lee,   Young-Jae; Kennedy,   P. Lynn.
This study seeks to identify interproduct relationships between domestic catfish and a representative selection of imported seafood. In doing so, this study uses multivariate cointegration and structural analyses. Multivariate cointegration analysis suggests that six imported seafood product groupings form a common market with domestic catfish. Structural analysis reveals that 1) domestic and imported catfish are net and gross quantity substitutes; 2) domestic catfish and imported seafood are normal goods; 3) six imported seafood products are identified as gross quantity substitutes for domestic catfish; and 4) according to the derived Allais coefficients, interaction intensities of imported seafood for domestic catfish (from greatest to least) are as...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Catfish; Multivariate cointegration; Quantity substitutability; Seafood imports; Structural analysis; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Financial Economics; Health Economics and Policy; International Relations/Trade; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; Political Economy; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Public Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; F10; F11; F13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100516

A Non-Hypothetical and Incentive Compatible Method for Estimating Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for a Novel Functional Food: The Case of Pomegranates
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: McAdams,   Callie P.; Palma,   Marco A.; Ishdorj,   Ariun; Hall,   Charles R.
A preference and valuation mechanism that compared results of an experimental auction and nonhypothetical preference rankings was developed and used to elicit preferences for pomegranate products from a representative sample of shoppers in Texas.  Familiarity with pomegranate products increased willingness-to-pay (WTP) for pomegranates, as did tasting and providing additional information on the health benefits of the products.  Ready-to-eat and juice products were preferred to whole fruit products.  Subjects did not indicate an increased WTP for Texas varieties over California Wonderful pomegranate based on auction bids but indicated a preference for one Texas variety in the nonhypothetical ranking procedure; thus, the auction results and nonhypothetical...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Willingness-to-pay; Pomegranate; Experimental auction; Ranking; Health; Novel product; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103682

Price Sensitivities for U.S. Frozen Dairy Products
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

Credit Accessibility, Risk Attitude, and Social Learning: Investment Decisions of Aquaculture in Rural Indonesia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Miyata,   Sachiko; Sawada,   Yasuyuki.
This study examines the factors that influenced poor Indonesian farmers to invest in floating net aquaculture after being relocated due to a reservoir construction project. To compare three primary decision factors, credit accessibility, risk attitudes, and social learning, (i.e., learning effects from others’ experience), we analyze 16 years of socio-economic retrospective data collected in the field interviews exclusively for this study. Our analysis reveals that credit accessibility and risk attitudes are the most important factors that influence the rate of aquaculture investment. Social learning as well as household education also influences the investment decision significantly. Our results suggest that developmen t projects that involve voluntary...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Household investment decision; Credit constraints; Risk attitudes; Social learning; Panel data; Farm Management; D1; D8; D12; Q22.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25669

WHO IS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING THE MEAT WE EAT IS SAFE?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Erdem,   Seda; Rigby,   Dan; Wossink,   Ada.
We report results of an analysis of the attribution of relative responsibility across the stages of the food chain for ensuring food safety. Specifically, we identify perceptions of the share of the overall responsibility that each stage in the food chain has to ensure that the meat people cook and eat at home does not cause them to become ill. Results are reported for two groups of stakeholders: consumers and farmers, and for two types of meat: chicken and beef. The stakeholders’ opinions regarding the relative degrees of responsibility of the sequential food chain stages (feed supplier, farmer, livestock transportation, abattoir,… consumer) are elicited via surveys using the Maximum Difference technique (best-worst scaling). The data are analyzed using...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q18; Q51; D03; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91813

Assessing Consumer Preferences for Country-of-Origin Labeling
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Loureiro,   Maria L.; Umberger,   Wendy J.
In this paper, we assess consumer willingness to pay for a mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) program applied to beef ribeye steaks, chicken breasts, and pork chops, all labeled as “Certified U.S.” products. A consumer survey was mailed in spring and early summer 2003 to households in the continental United States.  Results indicate that consumers are in general very concerned about food safety issues, viewing U.S. meats as the safest among the selection of countries considered.  Nevertheless, consumer willingness to pay for Certified U.S. products is relatively small, although above the expected implementation costs associated with a mandatory labeling program.  This finding coincides with the fact that only 36% of the sample favored consumers...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Beef; Consumer preferences; Country-of-origin labeling; Dichotomous choice; Willingness to pay; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43712

U.S. Demand for Source–Differentiated Shrimp: A Differential Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Jones,   Keithly G.; Harvey,   David J.; Hahn,   William F.; Muhammad,   Andrew.
Estimates of price and scale elasticities for U.S. consumed shrimp are derived using aggregate shrimp data differentiated by source country. Own-price elasticities for all countries had the expected negative signs, were statistically significant, and inelastic. The scale elasticities for all countries were positive and statistically significant at the 1% level with only the United States and Ecuador having scale elasticities of less than one. For the most part, the compensated demand effects showed that most of the cross-price effects were positive. Our results also suggest that despite the countervailing duties imposed by the United States, shrimp demand was fairly stable.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: CBS; Conditional demand; Countervailing duty; Imports; Scale elasticity; Shrimp; Agribusiness; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Production Economics; C32; D12; Q13; Q22.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47202

The Effects of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: Consumption, Calorie Intake, Obesity, and Tax Burden by Income
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lin,   Biing-Hwan; Smith,   Travis A.; Lee,   Jonq-Ying.
Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages has been proposed as a means to reduce calorie intake, improve diet and health, and generate revenue that governments can use to address the obesity-caused health and economic burden.  Two beverage demand systems were estimated using beverage purchase data for high-income and low-income households.  Using the estimated demand elasticities we examined the impacts of a hypothetical 20-percent effective tax rate (or about 0.5 cent per ounce) on beverage consumption, calorie intake, tax revenue and burden.  Our results suggest that such a tax would induce an average reduction of 35 and 41 calories a day among adults and children, respectively.  The tax burden is found to be regressive, although representing less than one...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Beverage demand; Sugar-sweetened beverage tax; Soda tax; Obesity; Tax revenue; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; C34; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61167

Effects of Information on Consumer Risk Perception and Willingness to Pay for Non-Genetically Modified Corn Oil
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Terawaki,   Taku.
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/16/05.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
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

Comparing Predictors of Diet Quality in Canada Over Time Under Consideration of Altering Food Guides
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Drescher,   Larissa S.; Goddard,   Ellen W.
Latest data on the diet of Canadians from the Canadian Community Health Survey reveals that the diet quality of Canadians needs improvement. Within this paper predictors of diet quality in Canada are identified based on two cross-sectional data sets from the Canadian Food Expenditure Survey. To measure diet quality, the Canadian Healthy Food Diversity (CanHFD)-Index is developed which is based on Food Guide recommendations. Moreover, this paper considers that the Food Guide between survey years has changed when analyzing diet quality. To track changes in demand for diet quality we use “Canada’s Food Guide 1982” to calculate CanHFD-Index for 1984 and 1996. Changes in demand for diet quality according to “Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating 1992” are...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Diet quality; Healthy food diversity; Canada; Food Guides; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D12; D13; I12; Q18.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52091

THE PRODUCTION THEORY APPROACH TO IMPORT DEMAND ANALYSIS: A COMPARISON OF THE ROTTERDAM MODEL AND THE DIFFERENTIAL PRODUCTION APPROACH
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Washington,   Andrew A.; Kilmer,   Richard L.
Results indicate that, when comparing the unconditional derived-demand elasticities to the unconditional consumer demand elasticities, significant differences emerge due to the differences in the first-stage estimation procedure between the differential production approach and the Rotterdam model.  In comparing the consumer demand price/corss-price elasticities to the derived-demand price/cross-price elasticities, it is clear that use of the Rotterdam model when a production approach should be used can lead to overestimation, underestimation, and incorrect signs in deriving unconditional price effects.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Dairy; Demand; Imports; International; Production; Rotterdam; Trade; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; D24; F10; F14; Q17.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15070

Analyzing the Impact of Food Safety Information on Food Demand in China
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: He,   Dehua; Chidmi,   Benaissa; Zhou,   Deyi.
This study analyzed the impact of food safety information on food demand in urban China. The LA/AIDS model was estimated by using national province level food consumption data and quantities of articles about food safety event on public media from 2000 to 2008. The results of the study show that urban Chinese consumer food demand was influenced by food safety information from daily newspapers and GM labeling policy. This paper also indicates food price elasticities, expenditure elasticities by categories and the effect of food safety information.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food safety; Food demand; Linear Approximated Almost Ideal Demand System( LA/AIDS); Genetically modified( GM); Food consumption; Price elasticity; Expenditure elasticity; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; Q11.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103618

Economic Factors and Body Weight: An Empirical Analysis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

Estimating Willingness to Pay for E10 fuel: a contingent valuation study
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bhattacharjee,   Sanjoy; Petrolia,   Daniel R.; Herndon,   Cary W., Jr.
In this study, we measure willingness to pay for E10 fuel by US consumers employing a contingent valuation technique in a simultaneous latent variable equation framework. The simultaneous equation framework helps us to understand the way consumers' perceptions about ethanol are developed and influence their respective buying behavior.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: E10 ethanol; Perceptions and economic choice; Latent variable; Random utility models; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; C12; C35; D12.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6730

The effects of food habits and socioeconomic status on overweight. Differences between the native Dutch and immigrants in the Netherlands
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cornelisse-Vermaat,   Judith R.; Maassen van den Brink,   Henriette.
Overweight is a worldwide growing epidemic. The Netherlands is among the countries with the highest prevalence for overweight, together with the USA, UK, and Germany. This paper investigates differences in overweight between native Dutch and three immigrant groups in the Netherlands, and the effects of food habits and socioeconomic status on overweight. The results show that all immigrant groups have a higher prevalence for overweight than the Dutch, apart from Moroccans. Males are overweight more frequently than females. Takeaway food, eating out, and fresh vegetables decrease BMI, while convenience food, ready-to-eat meals, and delivery food (in some cases) increase BMI. In all groups, BMI increases with age. For Surinamese/Antilleans and Turks BMI...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Overweight; Ethnicity; Food habits; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C20; D12; I12.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46732

Fresh-Cut Melon - The Money Is in the Juice
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mayen,   Carlos D.; Marshall,   Maria I.; Lusk,   Jayson L.
Fruit is an important component of the food industry in the United States, and “fresh-cut” products are an increasing portion of that consumption. We found that packaging and juice content played a significant role in the choices Indiana consumers made when purchasing fresh-cut melon products. Brand was not as important as the other fresh-cut melon attributes. Indiana consumers had a clear dislike for cup-shaped transparent packages compared with tamper-proof, bowl, and squared packages.  However, they were willing to pay a premium for packages that have no fruit juices on the bottom.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Conjoint; Consumer preferences; Demand; Fruit; Q13; D12; M31; P46.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43479

Valuation of Safety-Branded and Traceable Free Range Chicken in Ha Noi: Results from a Field Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ifft,   Jennifer; Roland-Holst,   David W.; Zilberman,   David.
The valuation of traceable or safety-branded food by consumers in developing countries affected by diseases such as avian influenza, or with food safety issues in general, is very difficult to identify. Products that have safety-branding are not common, and food is usually purchased by bargaining at informal markets. However, valuation of traceability has important implications for livestock disease policies as well as agricultural sector development. Through developing a short-term certified supply chain for free range chicken in Hanoi, we were able to conduct a combined field experiment and detailed household survey to measure the valuation of this type of poultry. We find that consumers in urban Hanoi on average have a welfare gain of about $1 per whole...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Field experiments; Avian influenza; Vietnam; Food safety; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C93; D12; Q13; Q18.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49444

Public Attitudes towards Agricultural Biotechnology
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hoban,   Thomas J.
The full benefits of agricultural biotechnology will only be realized if consumers and food manufacturers consider it safe and beneficial. Although few internationally comparable public opinion surveys have been conducted on this issue, the available evidence suggests that public attitudes differ sharply both between and within countries and are evolving over time. Consumer attitudes have been studied in the United States and Europe for more than a decade. This research is reviewed along with the available data from Latin America, Asia and Africa. Results from the largest internationally comparable public opinion survey on agricultural biotechnology to date are highlighted.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Biotechnology; Public Opinion; Consumer Acceptance.; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; D12; 013; Q18.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23810

Impact of Income on Price and Income Responses in the Differential Demand System
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brown,   Mark G.
An extension of the Rotterdam model is developed that makes the model’s income flexibility and marginal propensities to consume varying coefficients. Frisch’s duality relationships that the second partial derivatives of demand with respect to income and prices are independent of the order of differentiation are imposed with the marginal propensities to consume specified as functions of income and price, and the Slutsky coefficients specified as functions of income only. A uniform substitute specification is used to analyze the conditional demands for a group of beverages.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demand; Rotterdam model; Varying parameters; Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance; Production Economics; C51; D12; Q11.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47201

Adult Obesity and Food Stores’ Density – Evidence from State-Level Panel Data
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bonanno,   Alessandro; Goetz,   Stephan J.
The association between types of food access and rising adult obesity rates is increasingly recognized, as a complement to the effects of declining physical activity.  Previous studies have examined the effects on obesity of only a limited set of store types, such as grocery stores, fast food restaurants and big-box retailers, and they have ignored that certain behavioral factors, such as could play a role in the relationship between food access and obesity.  This analysis includes a comprehensive array of food-providing establishments, including limited- and full-service restaurants controlling for fruit-and-vegetables (F&amp;V) consumption (lagged temporally) using a panel data set for the continental U.S. states covering the period 1997-2005.  The...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Adult Obesity; Food Access; Eating Habits; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D12; I18; R23.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61341

What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bertrand,   Marianne; Karlan,   Dean S.; Mullainathan,   Sendhil; Shafir,   Eldar; Zinman,   Jonathan.
Firms spend billions of dollars each year advertising consumer products in order to influence demand. Much of these outlays are on the creative design of advertising content. Creative content often uses nuances of presentation and framing that have large effects on consumer decision making in laboratory studies. But there is little field evidence on the effect of advertising content as it compares in magnitude to the effect of price. We analyze a direct mail field experiment in South Africa implemented by a consumer lender that randomized creative content and loan price simultaneously. We find that content has significant effects on demand. There is also some evidence that the magnitude of content sensitivity is large relative to price sensitivity....
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Economics of advertising; Economics &amp; psychology; Behavioral; Economics; Cues; Microfinance; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Marketing; D01; M31; M37; C93; D12; D14; D21; D81; D91; O12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47038

THE ROLE OF LABELLING IN CONSUMERS’ FUNCTIONAL FOOD CHOICES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zou,   Ning Ning (Helen); Hobbs,   Jill E.
Given the credence nature of functional food attributes labelling plays a key role in allowing consumers to make informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes. The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products is somewhat more restrictive than in other jurisdictions, including the United States. Food manufacturers therefore also use visual imagery to suggest a health benefit, such as the picture of a red heart to imply that a product has heart health benefits. The paper characterizes these labelling strategies as “partial...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Discrete choice experiment; Latent class model; Health; Labelling; Omega-3; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12; Q13; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116421

On the use of honesty priming task to mitigate hypothetical bias in choice
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: de Magistris,   Tiziana; Gracia,   Azucena; Nayga,   Rodolfo M., Jr.
We test whether the use of an honesty priming task from the social psychology literature can help mitigate hypothetical bias in stated preference choice experiments (CE). Using a between-sample design, we conducted experiments with five treatments: (1) hypothetical CE without cognitive task, (2) hypothetical CE with cheap talk script, (3) hypothetical CE with neutral priming task, (4) hypothetical CE with honesty priming task, and (5) non-hypothetical CE. Results generally suggest that marginal willingness to pay estimates from treatment 4 where subjects are given honesty priming task before the choice experiment are not statistically different from marginal valuations from treatment 5 where subjects are in a non-hypothetical choice experiment. Values from...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Hypothetical bias; Cheap talk; Priming; Willingness-to-pay; Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; C23; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123639

Food Calorie Intake under Grain Price Uncertainty: Evidence from Rural Nepal
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Pan,   Suwen; Fang,   Cheng; Rejesus,   Roderick M.
This study evaluates the effects of grain output price uncertainty on the farm income of rural households and, consequently, how this uncertainty influences caloric intake through changes in farm income. Using a rural household data set, augmented with output price uncertainty measures calculated from historical time-series data, we find that grain output price uncertainty tends to decrease crop production income of rural households. In addition, we find that higher crop income from production increases calorie intake of rural households. Taken together, these results suggests  that output price uncertainty during the production process may tend to reduce caloric intake of rural Nepalese households since the price uncertainty negatively affects the crop...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food Calorie Intake; Price Uncertainty; Nepal; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; D12; O13; Q11; Q12.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6198

Japanese Consumers’ Perceptions on and Willingness to Pay for Credence Attributes Associated with Canola Oil
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hu,   Wuyang; Chen,   Kevin Z.; Yoshida,   Kentaro.
In this study we found that Japanese consumers value the conventional health claim “low in saturated fat” more than the relatively newer claims, such as “high in oleic acid.”  In addition, consumers do not prefer oil with genetically modified ingredients or oil that is not domestically produced, but they are willing to pay extra for “organic” or “functional food” features.  We also found that the scope and source of information on these credence attributes may also affect consumers’ choices and willingness to pay and that the effects may not be completely consistent with what one would expect.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Canola oil; Choice-based conjoint; Credence attributes; Japanese consumers; Willingness to pay; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43751

Farm Animal Welfare - Testing for Market Failure
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Carlsson,   Fredrik; Grykblom,   Peter; Lagerkvist,   Carl Johan.
Many consumers are concerned with animal welfare in the conventional production of farm livestock. This concern can be related both to their own and others’ consumption. In the latter case, there is a negative externality from consumption. We suggest a survey design that enables us to test for a market failure in farm livestock production. Applying this to the question of battery cages in egg production, we cannot show that a market failure exists. The policy can be extended to general discussion of how potential market failures for all kind of farm livestock should be managed.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Animal welfare; Choice experiments; Market failure; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; D12; Q13; Q18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6687

The Demand for Disaggregated Food-Away-from-Home Products
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Okrent,   Abigail M.; Alston,   Julian M.
Food away from home (FAFH) is an important component of the demand for food and hence, the nutritional intake of adults and children in the United States. Hence, policies designed to influence nutritional outcomes should address the role of FAFH. However, most studies of the response of demand for food to policy changes have ignored the role of FAFH, which means the estimates must be biased, while those studies that have included FAFH have treated it as a single good, giving rise to potential aggregation biases. In this study we estimate a demand system including a FAFH and alcoholic beverages composite (i.e., the aggregate of the three products modeled in the second stage), along with nine food at home (FAH) products (cereals and bakery products, dairy,...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food Demand; Food Away From Home (FAFH); Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; Q11.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103625

Partial versus General Equilibrium Calorie and Revenue Effects of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
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

Is Obesity a Result of Faulty Economic Policies? The Case of the United States and Japan
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Senauer,   Benjamin; Gemma,   Masahiko.
More than one billion adults are overweight worldwide, and more than 300 million of them clinically obese, raising the risk of many serious diseases. Only 3.6 percent of Japanese have a body mass index (BMI) over 30, which is the international standard for obesity, whereas 32.0 percent of Americans do. A total of 66.5 percent of Americans have a BMI over 25, making them overweight, but only 24.7 percent of Japanese. This paper examines the reasons Japan has one of the lowest rates of obesity in the world and the United States one of the highest, giving particular attention to underlying economic factors that might be influenced by policy changes. The average person in Japan consumes over 200 fewer calories per day than the average American. Food prices are...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Obesity; Food consumption; Food prices; Physical activity; Walking; Automobile costs; Agricultural and Food Policy; Health Economics and Policy; D12; I11.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25497

CONSUMER INTENTIONS OF BUYING POULTRY MEAT UNDER PERCEIVED BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL OR TECHNOLOGICAL RISK IN FINLAND
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Heikkila,   Jaakko; Pouta,   Eija; Forsman-Hugg,   Sari; Makela,   Johanna.
The study focuses on various types of food safety risks: biological (zoonoses), chemical (chemical treatment of the meat) and technological (use of genetically modified feed). The emphasis was on how the perceived risks affect the purchase intentions in the case of broiler meat. In the case of each risk products the attitude-level variables had importance in explaining the buying intentions. The heterogeneity of the respondents regarding the purchase intentions of risk products was analysed by latent class logistic regression that included all three risk products. About 60% of the respondents belonged to the group of risk avoiders in which the purchase intention of risk food was significantly lower than in the second group of risk neutrals in which 64% of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Broiler; Consumer behaviour; Risk; Food safety; Consumer heterogeneity; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C25; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116403

Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
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

How Fast Do Urban Migrants Change Their Diets?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gibson,   John.
Rapid urbanization is a major cause of structural change in food demand. In West Africa, urbanization is associated with a switch from coarse grains to rice and wheat, in Melanesia the switch is from root crops to rice and wheat, while in much of Asia the switch is away from cereals (and within cereals to wheat). Although reasons why urban diets differ from traditional rural diets are well known, the rate at which recent arrivals from the countryside switch their diet has not been estimated. Evidence on the speed of this dietary change can help to show whether studies of urban food demand need to control for cohort effects and may also help producers forecast the size of their future urban markets. This paper uses cross-sectional household survey data from...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food demand; Migration; Urbanization; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; O15.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123806

A Comparative Analysis of US and Canadian Consumers' Perceptions Towards BSE Testing and the use of GM Organisms in Beef Production: Evidence from a Choice Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Steiner,   Bodo E.; Yang,   Jun.
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/24/07.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Choice experiments; Multinomial logit; Beef labeling; Livestock Production/Industries; D12; L66; C35.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9977

Consumer Interest in Environmentally Beneficial Chicken Feeds:  Comparing High Available Phosphorus Corn and Other Varieties
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Pesek,   John D., Jr.; Bernard,   John C.; Gupta,   Meeta.
One source of phosphorous pollution in areas of high chicken production is runoff from fields using fertilizer from these operations. A potential solution is to feed chicken high available phosphorus (HAP) corn, reducing phosphorus in manure. This study examined consumer purchase likelihood of chickens fed HAP, created traditionally or through genetic modification, and other genetically modified (GM) corn including Bt and Roundup-ready. Survey results from the Delmarva Peninsula found considerable interest in non-GM HAP corn, although GM HAP corn was not typically viewed as more acceptable than other GM varieties. Overall, the marketplace appears open to products geared toward environmental benefits.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Chicken; Conjoint analysis; Corn; Genetically modified; Heteroscedastic; Phosphorus pollution; Tobit; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q13; D12; C24.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117945

Economic techniques to estimate the demand for sustainable products: a case study for fair trade and organic coffee in the United Kingdom
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Galarraga,   Ibon; Markandya,   Anil.
The hedonic approach is used in this paper to estimate how much is paid for the fair trade/organic characteristic of the coffee in the British market. This information is later combined with the Quantity Based Demand System (QBDS) model -developed by the authors- and the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) (Deaton and Muellbauer, 1980) to completely determine the demand function for different coffees. The QBDS model is easier to handle and less data demanding than the AIDS model in this study.  Resumen El presente artículo se basa en la utilización del método hedónico para la estimación de la cantidad que se paga por la característica de "Orgánico/Comercio Justo" del café en el mercado británico. La información obtenida se combina después con el modelo...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demand systems; Hedonic method; Coffee demand; Labelling; C13; C21; D12.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28732

Expert opinion and cuisine reputation in the market for restaurant meals
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fogarty,   James Joseph.
As food is an experience good, the market for restaurant meals is a market where the cost of acquiring information regarding quality is relatively high. In such markets consumers often turn to reputation measures to guide purchase decisions. As Australia does not have a longstanding cuisine style of its own, and given Australia has been open to substantial immigration inflows since federation, it represents an especially appropriate market to study regarding the impact of individual restaurant reputation and collective cuisine reputation on meal prices. The following study uses the hedonic price approach to investigate the implicit price of individual reputation indicators, cuisine type reputation indicators, and other objective indicators in the market...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Expert Opinion; Food; Hedonic Pricing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; Q18; Z10.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59078

Do Environmental Services Buyers Prefer Differentiated Rates? A Case Study from the Colombian Andes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Moreno-Sanchez,   Rocio del Pilar; Maldonado,   Jorge Higinio; Wunder,   Sven; Borda,   Carlos Andres.
Flat user fees in payment for environmental services (PES) schemes promote administrative ease, and are sometimes perceived as egalitarian. However, when environmental service (ES) buyers are heterogeneous in their income and water consumption levels, this may not be optimal, as total payments become too low and services are under-supplied. This paper identifies ES buyer preferences and estimates their willingness to pay (WTP) differentiated fees in an ongoing PES initiative in an Andean watershed in Colombia. Small, flat user payments have recently been introduced to implement incipient watershed protection upstream. Environmental service users fall into two highly heterogeneous categories: smallholder peasants and owners of recreational houses. We...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: PES; WTP; Environmental services; Colombia; Watershed protection; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Demand and Price Analysis; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q56; Q25; Q5; Q51; C25; D10; D12; D61; D63.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91171

Consumer Demand for Meat Cuts and Seafood
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Davis,   Christopher G.; Lin,   Biing-Hwan; Yen,   Steven T.
Household at-home consumption of different types and cuts of meat and fish products is investigated by estimating a large censored demand system with a two-step procedure using ACNielsen's Homescan data. We find different price and expenditure elasticities between low-income and high-income households. High income households are less responsive to price changes, and the substitution patterns also differ between the low- and high-income households. Whereas the uncompensated elasticities suggest a mixture of gross substitutes and complements among the products for both low- and high-income households, the compensated elasticities suggest net substitution is the obvious pattern for the low-income households.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Censored dependent variables; Sample selection model; Meat; Fish; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; C34.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9855

Consumer Acceptance and Willingness to Pay for Blueberry Products with Nonconventional Attributes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hu,   Wuyang; Woods,   Timothy A.; Bastin,   Sandra.
Consumer acceptance and willingness to pay for three nonconventional attributes associated with six processed blueberry products was examined through an in-store conjoint experiment survey. Both credence and experience attributes were considered, including whether the products were produced locally, and whether they were organic or sugar-free. The results indicate heterogeneity in consumer preference and willingness to pay for different attributes across product categories. Local products and organic formulations generally received positive willingness to pay across all products. This information has implications for blueberry growers and retailers who are trying to create and position value-added products for maximum revenue.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Blueberries; Conjoint experiment; Kentucky; Willingness to pay; Agribusiness; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48753

“Pick the Tick” The Impact of Health Endorsements on Consumers’ Food Choices
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mueller,   Simone C.; Umberger,   Wendy J.
To determine the efficiency of health-related endorsements in influencing consumer choice we report findings from two separate, unique discrete choice experiments (DCEs) involving fresh packaged beef steaks and seafood. In addition to quality and production-related attributes, the beef and seafood products also displayed a health endorsement: the Australian National Heart Foundation “Pick the Tick” certification. Another, more recently introduced health claim, “2 Serves a Week” was also included in the seafood experiment. Consumer awareness of the “Pick the Tick” certification was higher than any other extrinsic claim considered in the experiments. Furthermore, in both experiments, “Pick the Tick” had the highest impact and value relative to other...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Health claims; Food labelling; Discrete choice experiment; Beef; Seafood; Visual presentation; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12; I12; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116436

Demand Interrelationships of At-Home Nonalcoholic Beverage Consumption in the United States
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.
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...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
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

THE DEMAND FOR FOOD QUALITY IN RUSSIA AND ITS LINKAGE TO OBESITY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Staudigel,   Matthias.
This study analyses whether Russian households differ in their choice of food quality when they differ in their number of overweight and obese members. Using survey data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for the years 1995-2005, households are classified into three weight groups. Quality elasticities of expenditures are estimated by a fixed-effects panel model regressing unit values of several food groups on expenditures and a set of household characteristics. Coefficients for each weight group are received by including interaction terms of expenditures and weight group dummies. A set of Wald tests is applied to test for slope heterogeneity across weight groups. Descriptive statistics reveal that obese households actually purchase...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Unit values; Quality choice; Quality elasticity; Obesity; Russia; RLMS; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C23; D12; I10; I18; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116444

Use of Spike Models in Measuring Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Non-GM Oil
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hu,   Wuyang.
In this paper, Chinese consumers' preferences and their willingness to pay (WTP) for non-genetically modified (GM) vegetable oil were elicited by a payment card approach. In addition to the conventional model, spike models, which were originally developed to evaluate public goods, were adopted in this paper. These spike models recognize the possibility of zero WTP and provide opportunities to analyze two correlated decision stages: whether to pay a premium for non-GM oil and how much the premium is. Results show that consumers behaved consistently in the two decision stages and there is a premium associated with non-GM oil.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Chinese consumers; Non-genetically modified oil; Spike models; Willingness to pay; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q13; D12; C25.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43786

Ascertaining the Impact of the 2000 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans on the Intake of Calories, Caffeine, Calcium, and Vitamin C from At-Home Consumption of Nonalcoholic Beverages
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.; Clauson,   Annette L.
Obesity is one of the most pressing and widely emphasized health problems in America today. Beverage choices made by households have impacts on determining the intake of calories, calcium, caffeine, and vitamin C. Using data from the Nielsen Homescan Panel over the period 1998–2003, and a two-way random-effects Fuller-Battese error components procedure, we estimate econometric models to examine economic and demographic factors affecting per-capita daily intake of calories, calcium, caffeine, and vitamin C derived from the consumption of nonalcoholic beverages. Our study demonstrates the effectiveness of the USDA 2000 Dietary Guidelines in reducing caloric and nutrient intake associated with nonalcoholic beverages.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Nielsen Homescan Panel; Nonalcoholic beverages; Nutrient and caloric intake; USDA Dietary Guidelines; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D10; D12; I10; I18.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100632

USING BEST WORST SCALING TO INVESTIGATE PERCEPTIONS OF CONTROL AND CONCERN OVER FOOD AND NON-FOOD RISKS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Erdem,   Seda; Rigby,   Dan.
This research locates a series of risks or hazards within a framework characterized by the level of control respondents believe they have over the risks, and the level of worry the risks prompt. It does this for a set of both food and non-food risks. The means by which this is done is novel and differs from past risk perception analyses in that it asks people directly regarding their relative assessments of the levels of control and worry regarding the risks presented. The cognitive burden associated with people ranking and scaling items in large sets is notoriously heavy and so this study uses an elicitation method designed to make the process intuitive and cognitively manageable for respondents. The substantive analysis of the risk perceptions has 4 main...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Best-worst scaling; Maximum Difference; Food; Risk; Perception; Novel Technology; E.coli; UK; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Risk and Uncertainty; Q18; Q51; D03; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61518

Quality Adjustment for Spatially-Delineated Public Goods: Theory and Application to Cost-of-Living Indices in Los Angeles
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Banzhaf,   H. Spencer.
This paper illustrates how public goods may be incorporated into a cost-of-living index. When public goods are weak complements to a market good, quality-adjusted prices for the market good capture all the welfare information required. They are also consistent with a Laspeyres index that maintains the bound on a true cost-of-living index. The paper recovers this information from a discrete-choice model, using a simulation routine to solve for the appropriate price adjustments. These concepts are applied to the case of housing, education, crime, and air quality in Los Angeles for 1989 to 1994. Over a period of time when they are improving, incorporating pubic goods into the index lowers the estimated change in the cost of living by 0.5 to 2.6 percentage...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Air quality; Discrete choice models; Green accounting; Nonmarket valuation; Price index; Public Economics; C51; D12; D60; E31; H40; R10.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10833

DEMAND INTERACTION BETWEEN FARMED SALMON AND WILD CAUGHT FISH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fofana,   Abdulai; Clayton,   Patty.
Demand relationships between salmon and a number of wild-caught whitefish and shellfish species using both single equation models and linearised AIDS system framework. The system is well represented although autocorrelation were found in both approaches but this is less of a problem in the systems approach. A cautious interpretation of the results indicated that salmon had a long-run market relationship with the whitefish species of cod, monkfish, saithe, whiting and plaice and with the shellfish species of mussels, nephrops, scallops and shrimp. These groups contain the main seafood species consumed within the United Kingdom, and therefore should include most potential substitutes for salmon.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Demand; Salmon; Whitefish; Shellfish; AIDS; Elasticities; Demand and Price Analysis; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; C32; C22; D12.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11828

Milk-Marketing: Impact of Perceived Quality on Consumption Patterns
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Grebitus,   Carola; Yue,   Chengyan; Bruhn,   Maike; Jensen,   Helen H.
Consumers’ use of quality characteristics to make milk purchase decisions reveal opportunities to create successful marketing strategies. Such a strategy could concern food quality. In this case, three core areas influence consumers’ quality perception: the perception process, the physical product itself and the communication about it (Grunert et al., 1996). Beyond this background, this article analyzes the impact of certain quality characteristics and socio-demographics on consumption patterns regarding whole fat milk, skim milk and organic milk. These milks were chosen because of the increasing awareness of different fat contents in the meaning of lower fat contents being healthier and the increasing importance of the organic food market. Steenkamp’s...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Milk; Marketing; Consumption patterns; Perceived quality; Ordered logit; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; D12; Q13; M3.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7867

Initial Endowment Effects in Multi-Unit Vickrey Auctions
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Akaichi,   Faiçal; Nayga,   Rodolfo M., Jr.; Gil,   Jose Maria.
We report the result of experiments designed to assess the effect of initial endowments on willingness to pay values elicited from multi-unit Vickrey auctions.  Comparing bids from an “endow and upgrade” approach with the “full bidding” approach, we find that the direction of the endowment effect generally depends on the number of endowed units of the conventional product that subjects are willing to give up in exchange for units of the upgraded product. The endowment effect is “reverse” when the number of units that participants are willing to give up is lower or equal to the number of remaining endowed units. However, we generally find an endowment effect when the number of units a participant is willing to give up is higher than the number of remaining...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Endowment effect; Number of units of the endowed product; Multi-unit Vickrey auctions.; Agribusiness; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; C91; D12; D44.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103041

Consumer valuation of health attributes in food
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Smed,   Sinne; Hansen,   Lars Garn.
In modern societies it seems that the pleasures of taste often encourage the consumption of fatty, salty and sweet foods, whereas growing health awareness discourages consumption of the same foods. Numerous studies find that education and diet healthiness are highly correlated and one possible explanation is that consumers with a longer education are better at understanding and appreciating the health implication of their diet than are consumers with a short education. In this study we estimate a hedonic model of consumer’s valuation of food characteristics that allows nutrients to influence utility both through their perceived effects on health and their effects on the taste of food. The model is estimated using purchase data from a consumer panel with...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Hedonic model; Taste; Health; Food consumption; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; I12.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122730

VOLUNTARY RESTRICTIONS ON TELEVISION ADVERTISING FOR CARBONATED SOFT DRINKS: THE IMPACT ON CONSUMER DEMAND
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Berning,   Joshua P.
The health implications and costs associated with increasing levels of obesity are a widespread global issue. In the United States, there is a growing interest in identifying methods to reduce obesity levels. Particular focus has been given to advertisements for unhealthy foods, especially advertisements directed at young children as a number of studies conclude that advertising influences the perceptions, requests and short-term consumption behavior of young children. Recently, several of the largest global food producers began voluntary selfregulation of their advertisements to children under the age of 12. The group of participants includes the two largest carbonated soft drink (CSD) manufacturers. We estimate the demand for CSDs in the US over 15...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Advertising restrictions; Demand system; Carbonated soft drinks; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Q18; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116418

Discrete choice models, which one performs better?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gallardo,   Rosa Karina; Chang,   Jae Bong.
For over the last thirty years the multinomial logit model has been the standard in choice modeling.  Development in econometrics and computational algorithms has led to the increasing tendency to opt for more flexible models able to depict more realistically choice behavior.  This study compares three discrete choice models, the standard multinomial logit, the error components logit, and the random parameters logit.  Data were obtained from two choice experiments conducted to investigate consumers’ preferences for fresh pears receiving several postharvest treatments. Model comparisons consisted of in-sample and holdout sample evaluations.  Results show that product characteristics hence, datasets, influence model performance. We also found that the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Multinomial logit model; Error components; Random parameters; Discrete choice; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; C25; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61483

Heterogeneous Responses to Water Conservation Programs: The Case of Residential Users in Los Angeles
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hanemann,   W. Michael; Nauges,   Celine.
We propose a detailed analysis of heterogeneity in households’ responses to water conservation programs (price increase, voluntary and mandatory conservation) during periods of water shortage. Using a unique dataset covering water consumption of all residential users in Los Angeles (California) during the drought (1988-1992), we show that households generally were responsive to the conservation measures but that the magnitude of households’ responses varies depending on the instrument and on households’ characteristics, in particular the size of their lot. Price elasticity is estimated between –0.29 and –0.47 in the high season (June-October), and between 0 and –0.19 in the low season (November-May). Results suggest that the voluntary conservation program...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Water conservation; Residential use; Heterogeneity in behavior; Panel data; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; C23; D12; Q25.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7158

RURAL BROADBAND AVAILABILITY AND ADOPTION IN OKLAHOMA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Whitacre,   Brian E.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Broadband Adoption; Rural Broadband Availability; Broadband Infrastructure; Broadband Digital Divide; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; R22; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100793

WHO IS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING  THE MEAT WE EAT IS SAFE?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Erdem,   Seda; Rigby,   Dan; Wossink,   Ada.
We report results of an analysis of the attribution of relative responsibility across the stages of the food chain for ensuring food safety. Specifically, we identify perceptions of the share of the overall responsibility that each stage in the food chain has to ensure that the meat people cook and eat at home does not cause them to become ill. Results are reported for two groups of stakeholders: consumers and farmers, and for two types of meat: chicken and beef. The stakeholders’ opinions regarding the relative degrees of responsibility of the sequential food chain stages (feed supplier, farmer, livestock transportation, abattoir,… consumer) are elicited via surveys using the Maximum Difference technique (best-worst scaling). The data are analyzed using...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Maximum Difference; Best Worst Scaling; Responsibility; Food Safety; Perception; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Q18; Q51; D03; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61642

Formando microempresarias: impacto de la capacitación empresarial en las instituciones de microfinanzas y sus socias
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Karlan,   Dean S.; Valdivia,   Martin.
Los debates académicos y de políticas acerca de la actividad microempresarial se centran frecuentemente en las restricciones crediticias, asumiendo que los negocios se manejan de manera óptima dadas esas y otras restricciones. Los microempresarios, sin embargo, raramente tienen capacitación formal en gestión empresarial. Por su parte, un número creciente de instituciones de microfinanzas (IMF), en el Perú y el mundo, procura construir el capital humano de estos microempresarios para mejorar sus niveles de vida, contribuyendo a su misión de reducir la pobreza. Con ayuda de un diseño experimental, en este estudio medimos el impacto marginal de agregar un componente de capacitación en gestión empresarial a un programa de servicios financieros que atiende a...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Microempresarios; Microfinanzas; Pequeñas empresas; Mujeres; Capacitacion; Small enterprises; Training; Women; Peru; Financial Economics; C93; D12; D13; D21; I21; J24; O12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91358

Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Anderson,   Michael L.; Matsa,   David A.
Replaced with revised version Feb. 24, 2010.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Economics of regulation; Health production; Obesity; Fat tax; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D12; H25; I12; I18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37652

Household Energy Demand and the Equity and Efficiency Aspects of Subsidy Reform in Indonesia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Olivia,   Susan; Gibson,   John.
The proper design of price interventions requires consideration of equity and efficiency effects. In this paper, budget survey data from 29,000 Indonesian households are used to estimate a demand system for five energy sources, which is identified by the spatial variation in unit values (expenditures divided by quantities). We correct for the various quality and measurement error biases that result when unit values are used as proxies for market prices. The price elasticities are combined with tax and subsidy rates to calculate the marginal social cost of price changes for each item. The results suggest that even at high levels of inequality aversion there is a strong case for reducing the large subsidies on gasoline and kerosene, supporting the reforms...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Demand elasticities; Energy; Fuels; Subsidies; Unit Values; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; D12; Q31.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25745

Market Competitiveness and Demographic Profiles of Dairy Alternative Beverages in the United States: The Case of Soymilk
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.
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

Impacts of Sample Size and Quality-Adjusted Imputed Prices on Own-Price Elasticities Estimated Using Cross-Sectional Data
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Stockton,   Matthew C.
Cross-sectional data sets containing expenditure and quantity information are typically used to calculate quality-adjusted imputed prices.  Do sample size and quality adjustment of price statistically alter estimates for own-price elasticities? This paper employs a data set pertaining to three food categories-pork, cheese, and food away from home-with four sample sizes for each food category.  Twelve sample sizes were used for both adjusted and unadjusted prices to derive elasticities.  No statistical differences were found between own-price elasticities among sample sizes.  However, elasticities that were based on adjusted price imputations were significantly different from those that were based on unadjusted prices.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Cross-sectional data; Imputed prices; Quality-adjusted prices; B41; D12; C21; C24.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43216

Why Is the Obesity Rate So Low in Japan and High in the U.S.? Some Possible Economic Explanations
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Senauer,   Benjamin; Gemma,   Masahiko.
More than one billion adults are overweight worldwide, and more than 300 million of them clinically obese, raising the risk of many serious diseases.  Only 3.6 percent of Japanese have a body mass index (BMI) over 30, which is the international standard for obesity, whereas 32.0 percent of Americans do.  A total of 66.5 percent of Americans have a BMI over 25, making them overweight, but only 24.7 percent of Japanese.  This paper examines the reasons Japan has one of the lowest rates of obesity in the world and the United States one of the highest, giving particular attention to underlying economic factors that might be influenced by policy changes.  The average person in Japan consumes over 200 fewer calories per day than the average American.  Food...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Obesity; Food consumption; Food prices; Physical activity; Walking; Automobile costs; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D12; I 11.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14321

Can Taxes on Calorically Sweetened Beverages Reduce Obesity?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Todd,   Jessica E.; Zhen,   Chen.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Beverage tax; Obesity; Overweight; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; H2; I18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95754

Taste Changes and Demographic in Spanish Seafood Consumption
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Millan,   Joaquin A.; Aldaz,   Natalia.
This study analyses seafood consumption at home in Spain using three different cross-sectional survey data-sets for 1980, 1990 and 1998.  Households are analysed in eleven different types, according to size and composition.  Price indices for seafood and meats are calculated for each household type.  Discrete participation and continuous consumption decisions are studied.  Socio-economic variables sometimes play an important role but not with a regular pattern.  Economic fundamentals follow a common pattern for all household types.  Seafood demand is inelastic in 1980 and very elastic and meat complement in 1990 and 1998.  Expenditure elasticity does not decrease between 1980 and 1998.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Seafood consumption; Seafood price elasticity; Seafood and meat substitution; Demographic characteristics; Spain; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries; D12; Q11.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56078

Modeling Yeah- and Nay-Saying to Alternatives in Conjoint Experiments
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hu,   Wuyang.
Using a series of hurdle choice models, this study considers both nay-saying and yeah-saying to alternatives offered in a conjoint experiment.  These behaviors are characterized by respondents persistently choosing the no-choice alternative or choosing at least one of the non-empty options offered in a survey.  Results show that jointly consider nay-saying and yeah-saying in a two-hurdle model drastically improves model fit; welfare implications based on hurdle models are also different from those based on models without hurdle specification.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Conjoint experiment; Hurdle choice model; Yeah and nay-saying; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; C25.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6346

Investigating Changes in Canadian Consumers' Food Safety Concerns, 2003 and 2005
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Veeman,   Michele M.; Li,   Yu.
Building on the results of an initial analysis of risk ranking data collected from a representative group of some 850 Canadian respondents in early 2003, this study assesses a similar set of risk ranking questions applied to a somewhat larger representative group of some 1500 Canadians in late 2005.  We also compare the 2003 and 2005 risk rankings.   In both surveys, risk rankings for eight food safety issues (bacteria contamination, pesticide residuals, use of hormones in food production, use of antibiotics in food production, BSE (mad cow disease), food additives, use of genetic modification/engineering in food production, fat and cholesterol in food) and six environmental safety issues (water pollution by chemical run-offs from agriculture, soil...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food safety risks; Risk perceptions; Environmental risk; Canadian agriculture; Ordered probit models; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C25; D12; I 19; Q 18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7710

On the Use of Multi-Unit Auctions in Measuring Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Food Products
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Akaichi,   Faiçal; Nayga,   Rodolfo M., Jr.; Gil,   Jose Maria.
This paper proposes the use of multi-unit auctions in studying consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for food products in a multi-unit shopping scenario. We show how this method can overcome the limitations of single-unit experimental auctions in obtaining useful information related to WTP for not just the first unit but also subsequent units of a product, the demand curve, consumer surplus, the determinants of consumers’ WTP for each auctioned unit, and the effect of potential price discount strategies.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Multi-unit auctions; Willingness to pay; Demand curve; Consumer surplus; Price discounts.; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; C91; D12; D44; M31.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60983

Consumer Issues and Demand
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Jensen,   Helen H.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Livestock Production/Industries; D12; F13.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94384

Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The experience of Afghan households
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: D'Souza,   Anna; Jolliffe,   Dean.
Revised version submitted December 2012.
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Afghanistan; Food security; Conflict; Nutrition; Poverty; Spatial distribution; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; D12; I3.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123323

The Impact of Labeling Practices on Perceived Quality of GM Food Products: A Revealed Preferences Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Scatasta,   Sara; Wesseler,   Justus; Hobbs,   Jill E.
This article contributes to the ongoing discussion about the impact of different labeling practices on the quality of genetically modified (GM) food products as perceived by the consumer. Thus far, many studies have adopted a stated preferences approach, finding that consumers have different willingness to pay for GM and non-GM products. This article offers an empirically tractable theoretical model that can be used easily to investigate the impact of GM labeling practices on the perceived quality of GM food products, making use of market data.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer preferences; Genetically modified food products; Labeling; Quality; Variety; Elasticity of substitution; Consumer/Household Economics; Q11; Q18; D12.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24599

Demographic and Economic Profiling of U.S. Demand for Probiotics: The Case of Drinkable Yogurt
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.
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.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
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

What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bertrand,   Marianne; Karlan,   Dean S.; Mullainathan,   Sendhil; Shafir,   Eldar; Zinman,   Jonathan.
Numerous laboratory studies report on behaviors inconsistent with rational economic models. How much do these inconsistencies matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to learn from experiences? We report on a field experiment designed to address this question. Incumbent clients of a lender in South Africa were sent letters offering them large, short-term loans at randomly chosen interest rates. Psychological “features” on the letter, which did not affect offer terms or economic content, were also independently randomized. Consistent with standard economics, the interest rate significantly affected loan take-up. Inconsistent with standard economics, the psychological features also significantly affected...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Behavioral economics; Psychology; Microfinance; Marketing; Field experiment; Credit markets; Consumer/Household Economics; D01; C93; D12; D21; D81; D91; M37; O12.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28441

The role of consumers’ perceptions in the valuation of food safety and convenience attributes of vegetables in Vietnam
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mergenthaler,   Marcus; Weinberger,   Katinka; Qaim,   Matin.
Food systems in developing countries are undergoing a profound transformation characterized by the emergence and expansion of modern retailers and integrated supply chains. Appropriate policies are needed to guide this transformation, presupposing a good understanding of consumer preferences. We analyze consumers’ valuation of different vegetable attributes in metropolitan areas of Vietnam, using contingent valuation techniques and a mediation framework for two specific examples. Consumers are willing to pay an average price premium of 60% for Chinese mustard that is free of chemical residues and of 19% for different convenience attributes of potatoes. Income levels and media have positive impacts on the willingness to pay, partly mediated through...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Contingent valuation; Convenience; Food quality; Food safety; Mediation framework; Transformation of food systems; Vietnam; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Development; Marketing; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51629

Precaution and Protectionism: GM Food and the WTO
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rigby,   Dan; Burton,   Michael P.; Young,   Trevor.
The dispute between the US and EU over GM foods at the WTO is examined in terms of the issues it raises about protectionism and environmental protection and precaution. The issue of whether GM, GM Derived and Non-GM foods are equivalent to each other is examined using data from a national choice modelling study in the UK. These categories of food are critical since they underpin the EU's new food labelling regime which it hoped would defuse the WTO dispute. The results are analysed using a Bayesian mixed logit model which allows greater flexibility in the modelling of preference distributions. This is particularly crucial where, as in this case, bi-modal distributions are identified with some indifferent or mildly averse to GM foodtypes while others are...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: GM food; Mixed logit; WTP; Bayesian; WTO; International Relations/Trade; C11; C24; C25; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24447

A meta-analysis of the response of calorie demand to income changes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ogundari,   Kolawole; Abdulai,   Awudu.
Over the past three decades, several studies have analyzed the response of calorie intake to income with varying and inconclusive results. This paper review these studies and employs meta-analysis to examine the potential bias in the calorie-income elasticity, as well as the impact of specific study attributes on these elasticities reported in the empirical literature. A total of 40 studies which yielded 99 estimated elasticities were considered. The results show the presence of publication (reporting) selection bias in the reported elasticities. Besides, the estimates revealed evidence of positive and significant empirical effect of income on calorie intake from all the studies that goes beyond publication bias. Study attributes such as ranking of the...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Calorie-income elasticity; Heterogeneity; Meta-analysis; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; C01.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123287

Investigating Thai Shopping Behavior: Wet-Markets, Supermarkets and the ‘Big Middle’
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gorton,   Matthew; Sauer,   Johannes; Supatpongkul,   Pajaree.
Drawing on the Big Middle theory of retail evolution, an analysis of primary survey data on Thai shopping behavior seeks to understand the relative satisfaction of consumers with wet markets and supermarkets, identifying the factors that affect frequency of visit to, and purchase behavior within, these retail outlets. This provides the basis for engaging in a wider debate on the possibility of a ‘Global Big Middle’ for food retailing. On all salient attributes affecting retail outlet choice, supermarkets perform better than wet markets. However for fresh produce, wet markets continue to account for the majority of expenditure, albeit to a far lesser extent than in previous studies. A bootstrapped bivariate ordered probit model identifies that supermarkets...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Big Middle; Food retailing; Thailand; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; D12; L81; P46.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50332

Spanish Demand for Food Away From Home: A Panel Data Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Angulo,   Ana Maria; Gil,   Jose Maria; Mur,   Jesus.
In this paper, the Spanish demand for food away from home is analysed. A panel data set is built and appropriate techniques for estimating limited dependent variable models have been applied. Results indicate that where there are zero expenditures, these are largely due to infrequency of purchase rather than to abstention or to economic reasons. Furthermore, important differences appear among households. On the one hand, those households whose head is a highly-educated person, male, young and living on a salary in a large town are more likely to purchase food away from home. On the other hand, increases in income only provokes more than proportional increases in expenditure for those households headed by an unschooled person, a female or a person older...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Demand for food away from home; Household production theory; Panel data.; Consumer/Household Economics; C23; C24; D12.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24977

Conjoint Analysis of Consumer Preferences for Lamb Meat in Central and Southwest Urban Albania
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Imami,   Drini; Chan-Halbrendt,   Catherine; Zhang,   Quanguo; Zhllima,   Edvin.
The IFAMR is the Official Journal of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association: www.ifama.org
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Conjoint Choice Experiment (CCE); Latent class analysis; Lamb meat; Consumer preferences; Albania; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; D12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114711

Consumers’ willingness to pay for food safety: the case of mycotoxins in milk
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Sckokai,   Paolo; Moro,   Daniele; Cuomo,   Enrica.
European statistics show that one of the most widespread source of health risks related to food is mycotoxins. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the Italian consumers’ perception of the mycotoxins’ risk and, more specifically, their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a hypothetical bottle of milk obtained by cows in which the feed ration contains maize certified for the ‘good practices’ that reduce such risk. For this purpose, a web-based stated choice (SC) experiment involving a representative sample of 973 Italian consumers has been carried out and WTP has been measured using the panel data version of a Random Parameters Logit (RPL) model. The results show that Italian consumers are willing to pay a rather high average price premium for...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food safety; Mycotoxins; Willingness to pay; Mixed logit; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C35; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116411

Consumer behavior towards show-room services of two wheelers with reference to Cuddalore district
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Saravanan,   S.; Panchanatham,   N.; Pragadeeswaran,   S.
The study aims to find out the consumer behavior towards showroom service of two wheelers. A samples of 200 users selected randomly were studied. Standardized questionnaires were used to collect the data. The results reveal that users differ in consumer behaviour towards showroom services of two wheelers on the basis of satisfied random sampling. This study is made to describe the consumer satisfaction of two wheelers with respect to socio-economic characteristics as age, gender, occupation, family income, educational level and so on which is called descriptive study. The data were treated statistically using t-test, F-test and correlation. The result shows that students and employees are more satisfied about show room services. Demographic variables such...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Consumer behaviour; Marketing; Two wheeler; Motorcycles.; Consumer/Household Economics; Marketing; D12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94584

Price sensitivity within and across retail formats
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Widenhorn,   Andreas; Salhofer,   Klaus.
Paper removed at the request of the first author, October 2013.
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Demand; Elasticity; Discount; Retail formats; International Relations/Trade; D12.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124108

Consumer Willingness to Pay for Fair Trade Coffee: A Chinese Case Study
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Yang,   Shang-Ho; Hu,   Wuyang; Mupandawana,   Malvern; Liu,   Yun.
Coffee consumption in China has seen a significant rise in recent years. This study seeks to explore the determinants of coffee consumption in China with a specific focus on fair trade coffee. In a survey of 564 respondents in Wuhan City, consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP)for fair trade labeled coffee was measured. This study uses an interval regression to investigate individual demographic and consumption characteristic impacts on WTP. Results show that on average, consumers were willing to pay 22% more for a medium cup of fair trade coffee compared with traditional coffee. In addition, other variables that indicated a higher WTP included female consumers, consumers who made their own coffee, and consumers who planned to consume more coffee in the...
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: China; Fair trade coffee; Interval regression; Willingness to pay; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Relations/Trade; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120449

DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY IN U.S. CONSUMER RESPONSIVENESS TO CARBONATED SOFT-DRINK MARKETING PRACTICES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rhodes,   Charles.
Using three years of Nielson Homescan and advertising data from 16 major metropolitan areas across the U.S. to construct a panel data set that follows weekly consumer purchasing behavior, this paper investigates the impact of marketing activities on a representative cross-section of U.S. consumers. Because many consumers do not participate in the market week-in and week-out, I apply Heckman’s econometric selection model to recover the impact of pricing, advertising, and promotion on a wide range of consumer segments. Reduced-form estimates of consumer responsiveness to these marketing activities reveal different effects across consumer segments, which have numerous implications for marketing policy.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Carbonated soft drink; Marketing-mix models; Demographic segmentation; Econometric selection models; Nielsen panel data; Food marketing policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12; L66; M38.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116419

Discounting Spotted Apples: Investigating Consumers’ Willingness to Accept Cosmetic Damage in an Organic Product
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Yue,   Chengyan; Alfnes,   Frode; Jensen,   Helen H.
The appearance of organic produce is often less than perfect because of limited methods of avoiding plant diseases. We combine hypothetical and real auction mechanisms to investigate how cosmetic damage affects consumers’ willingness to pay for apples. We find that 75% of the participants are willing to pay more for organic than for conventional apples given identical appearance. However, at the first sight of any imperfection in the appearance of the organic apples, this segment is significantly reduced. Furthermore, the cosmetic damage has a larger impact on the willingness to pay for organic apples than for conventional apples.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Appearance; Apples; Experimental auctions; Organic; Willingness to pay; Agribusiness; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48756

LONG-RUN EFFECTS FROM CONSUMER REACTION TO THE SPREAD OF FOODBORNE PATHOGENS: THE CASE OF E. COLI CONTAMINATION OF BEEF AT JACK IN THE BOX RESTAURANTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zhen,   Chen.
Using news coverage of food safety as an indicator of public attention to food pathogen issues in meat products, we found the 1993 E. coli O157:H7 contamination of hamburgers likely permanently changed consumers' perception of beef safety. A food consumption model with rational habit persistence is developed to examine whether consumers make forward-looking consumption decisions accounting for expectations of future food safety. We document clear evidence of forward-looking consumption behavior, which suggests that government regulations implemented subsequent to the 1993 event to protect consumers from ignorance or cognitive defects may be ineffective.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food safety; Habit persistence; Linear rational expectations model; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; D18.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51341

Demand for Food of Indonesian Households: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Pangaribowo,   Evita Hanie.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food demand; QUAIDS; Indonesia; Consumer/Household Economics; D11; D12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103429

Product Information and Willingness-to-Pay: A Case Study of Fair Trade Coffee on Chinese Market
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Yang,   Shang-Ho; Guan,   Huanda; Hu,   Wuyang; Liu,   Yun.
Poster Presentation
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Product information; Willingness-to-pay; Fair trade coffee; Chinese market; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124360

Effects of Endogenous Task Complexity and the Endowed Bundle on Stated Choice
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hu,   Wuyang.
Conventionally, studies examining the impacts of choice complexity only consider complexity introduced exogenously from the tasks respondents face.  In the context of a stated conjoint survey, this article establishes endogenous complexity measures through decision-makers’' experience known as the endowed bundle before the survey.  Results show that complexity should not only be defined exogenously.  Endogenous complexity measures are important in determining the utility associated with an alternative and the decision of whether to participate in the market.  In addition, some of these complexity effects are nonlinear.  We also show that exogenous complexity simultaneous affects the choice consistency.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Complexity; Endowed Bundle; Random Utility; Stated Choice; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; C81; D12.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21437

Effects of Tourism Upon the Economy of Small and Medium-Sized European Cities. Cultural Tourists and “The Others”
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: del Corpo,   Barbara; Gasparino,   Ugo; Bellini,   Elena; Malizia,   William.
The paper presents the results of the application of an Input-Output-based approach for the estimation of direct, indirect and induced effects of tourist spending on local economies, in a static partial equilibrium setting. The methodology has been successfully applied in three case studies – Bergen (Norway), Elche (Spain), Syracuse (Italy) –, in the framework of the 6th FP project PICTURE (Pro-active management of the Impact of Cultural Tourism upon Urban Resources and Economies), in order to quantify the monetary impact of cultural tourism upon urban economies. The analysis was carried out in two major steps: firstly, interviews to tourists in each case study city, in order to estimate the scale and variability of the spending patterns of different...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Tourism; Cultural Tourism; Economic Impacts; Input-Output Analysis; C67; R15; L83; D12.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37522

Testing for Consistency in Tourists' Willingness to Pay for New Nature Reserves in the Gulf of Morbihan (France)
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Voltaire,   Louinord; Nassiri,   Abdelhak; Bailly,   Denis; Boncoeur,   Jean.
In this paper, we develop an empirical test of consistency in contingent willingness to pay (WTP) responses, which is based on the following a priori expectation. In economics, when an individual considers paying for public goods, his decision to pay, and his WTP are based on utility-maximising behaviour. Accordingly, supposing other factors are identical, if individual A expresses greater interest in paying for public goods in general than individual B, that is because A receives more benefits from the use and/or the non-use of these goods than B. Continuing with this logic, if both individuals are asked about their WTP for a precise public good, A should logically be more likely to pay and should be willing to pay more than B. Thus, the test consists in...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Contingent valuation; Consistency; Endogeneity; Consumer/Household Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; C24; D12; Q26.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114378

Padrão de consumo de alimentos no Brasil
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Coelho,   Alexandre Braganca; Aguiar,   Danilo Rolim Dias de; Fernandes,   Elaine Aparecida.
Food purchasing in Brazil has undergone major changes in the last few decades caused by structural shifts such as urbanization, changes in demographic characteristics and increase in participation of women in the labor force. Therefore, it is necessary to identify thoroughly new consumption patterns of families, especially concerning determinants of food purchasing decision. The objective of this study was to understand the consumption pattern of Brazilian families for food products by means of a qualitative response variable model including eighteen food products using POF 2002/2003 data. The Probit model was chosen to estimate this decision. Estimation results showed that purchasing probabilities of staple foods were negative related to family monthly...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Food Purchase; Brazilian Household Budget Survey (POF); Probit Model; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; C25; R22.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60306

Quantifying the Structure of Food Demand in China Using a Generalized Quadratic AIDS Specification
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
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

Cairo Evaluation Clinic: Thoughts on Randomized Trials for Evaluation of Development
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Karlan,   Dean S.
We were asked to discuss specific methodological approaches to evaluating three hypothetical interventions. This article uses this forum to discuss three misperceptions about randomized trials.  First, nobody argues that randomized trials are appropriate in all settings, and for all questions.  Everyone agrees that asking the right question is the highest priority.  Second, the decision about what to measure and how to measure it, i.e., through qualitative or participatory methods versus quantitative survey or administrative data methods, is independent of the decision about whether to conduct a randomized trial.  Third, randomized trials can be used to evaluate complex and dynamic processes, not just simple and static interventions.  Evaluators should aim...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Program evaluation; Randomized control trial; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Financial Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Labor and Human Capital; Public Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; B41; O12; H43; J08; H54; D73; D12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51913

International Consumption Patterns for Proteins and Fats: Intra-distributional Mobility and the Role of Income Elasticity
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fousekis,   Panos.
Stochastic kernels are used in this paper to investigate intra-distribution dynamics in the world per capita intakes of proteins and fats. The analysis of actual transitions over the last 40 years indicates that lagging countries improved their position relative to the leading. Long-run (steady-state) distributions have been obtained using estimated intake change models. These distributions have been compared to “virtual” ones revealing that the income elasticity of demand or equivalently the rate of growth in per capita income does have a strong influence on the dispersion of intakes at the steady-state.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Nutrient Intakes; Stochastic Kernels; Agricultural and Food Policy; Q1; D12; C14.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58279

Unit Value Biases in Meat Demand in Indonesia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Olivia,   Susan; Gibson,   John.
Indonesia is an emerging market for beef and cattle exports so estimates of income and price elasticities may help analysts predict future demands. In contrast to developed countries, where meat demand studies often use aggregate data, Indonesian studies rely on household surveys, with unit values (ratios of expenditures to quantities) used instead of market prices. Elasticities estimated from unit values can be subject to various quality and measurement error biases. In this paper, data from 29,000 households on Java are used to estimate a demand system for beef, chicken and other meat groups, and the extent of bias from commonly used estimation strategies is evaluated.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; D12; Q11.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58195

Demographic and Economic Profiling of U.S. Demand for Non-Alcoholic Beverages 1998-2003: A Household Level Two-Step Analysis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
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

Integrating Routine, Variety Seeking and Compensatory Choice in a Utility Maximizing Framework
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Adamowicz,   Wiktor L.; Swait,   Joffre.
Given the large number of choices that consumers make each day it seems likely that they will generally adopt decision strategies that minimize cognitive effort, particularly with low price products such as most items found in a supermarket. One such strategy may be to simply choose what has been chosen in the past, i.e. to fall into a pattern of routine choices or decisions. In contrast, there may be preferences for variety in markets for low price, highly differentiated goods. We develop a conceptual and empirical model of routine choice, and the factors that result in transitions to two strategies other than routine selection, to wit, utility maximizing choice among available alternatives and a variety seeking strategy. The empirical approach we employ...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Choice modeling; Routine behavior; Variety‐seeking; Panel data; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; D12; D03; C25.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98687

Value-Added Meat: Measuring Past Successes and Predicting Future Winners
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Goddard,   Ellen W.; Schram,   Craig; Huang,   Wenzhao; Yang,   Jun; Drescher,   Larissa S.
Livestock industries are significantly affected by changes in consumer behaviour. In order to add value to meat and livestock production, many firms and farms are supporting the development of new products – these products can differ by credence attribute, by degree of processing and by marketing strategies. The literature suggests that one of the most important determinants of success in product innovation is an understanding of the market the product is introduced into. In this report consumer preferences for meat products, by animal species including minor meats, and by type of processing are examined. Responses to economic variables such as price, advertising and income are identified as are responses to food safety and meat related health issues....
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Meat; Consumer behavior; Value-added; Strategic behaviour; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107191

Quality Warranties and Food Products in Argentina. What Do Consumers Believe In?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Berges,   Miriam E.; Casellas,   Karina S.
Consumers increasingly demand multiple-quality attributes in food products and value reliable means to identify them. For producers, the effective communication of their products quality is a marketing strategy. Therefore, another market of information associated with the new food markets emerges. This market is closely linked to the institutional environment and the level of trust in different information sources. In this article the emphasis will be put on how the different quality signals provided by the firms in their products affect the consumers´ behaviour. The objective is to investigate domestic consumers' perceptions and beliefs about food quality information in Argentina to identify the mechanisms that fully guarantee this quality. The results...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food quality; Quality warranties; Consumers; Argentina; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; L15.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25526

A non-compensatory choice modeling analysis of Japanese consumers’ preferences for beef: A choice experiment approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Aizaki,   Hideo; Sawada,   Manabu; Sato,   Kazuo; Kikkawa,   Toshiko.
The purpose of this paper is to examine, using choice experiments, the Japanese consumers’ valuation of domestic Wagyu beef, domestic dairy beef, Australian beef, and US beef when considering their bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) test status. Some Japanese consumers give high priority to food safety while purchasing beef; this is expected to cause a non-compensatory valuation of food safety. As compared to the results derived from a compensatory utility model, a random parameters logit (RPL) with a non-compensatory utility model provides estimation results that are fitter for the respondents’ decision-making rules and also provides more valid willingness to pay (WTP) for each type of beef. The results suggest that the RPL with the non-compensatory...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: BSE; Food safety; Consumers' valuation; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Q13; D18; D12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51656

A CHOICE-EXPERIMENT BASED ANALYSIS OF PROTECTION MOTIVATION THEORY: HEALTH RELATED BEHAVIOR OF CONSUMERS WITH CELIAC DISEASE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zhang,   Jing; Steiner,   Bodo E.
The underlying components of protection motivation theory (PMT; Rogers 1983) are explored through choice experiment-based analysis within a random utility framework, to account for some of the motivational, cognitive, and affective processes that likely affect celiacs’ propensity to use a novel health-risk reducing product. Those four groups of variables that are aimed to capture threat appraisal and coping appraisal processes as part of the standard PMT (Rogers 1975, 1983; Floyd et al. 2000) are found to contribute significantly to explaining the adaptive response of celiacs. Self-assessed vulnerability and perceived product efficacy form a most significant part of respondents’ threat appraisal process. Standard socio-demographic and lifestyle...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Celiac disease; Protection motivation theory; Choice experiments; Confidence; Risk perceptions; Vulnerability; Efficacy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D03; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116454

An Economic-Psychological Model of Sustainable Food Consumption
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
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

What is it Consumers really want, and how can their preferences be influenced? The Case of fat in Milk
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Andersen,   Laura M.; Smed,   Sinne.
In this paper we investigate preferences for fat in milk through a structural characteristics model. The data includes information about daily purchases and social and demographic characteristics of more than 1,100 households. We find that consumers who prefer milk with a high fat content do not react to information about health effects, but can be influenced by prices, while consumers who prefer milk with a low share of fat are influenced by information, but are less price sensitive. Therefore, when attempting to decrease consumption of fat from milk, prices are more efficient than information.
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Fat in milk; Characteristics model; Hedonic prices; Information; Panel data; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122728

An Analysis of Food Grain Consumption in Urban Jiangsu Province of China
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zheng,   Zhihao; Henneberry,   Shida Rastegari.
The impacts of economic and demographic variables on the demand for food grain commodities in urban Jiangsu province of China are estimated, using both the QUAIDS and the AIDS models. Results show that the demands for wheat flour and coarse grains are price-elastic while the demands for rice and grain products are price-inelastic. Certain demographic variables show as having a significant impact on food grain demand. Finally, a decomposition of causes of changes in rice consumption over the period of 1995–2007 is performed.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: AIDS model; China food grain demand; China urban household demand; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Development; Production Economics; Public Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; Q18; Q13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90677

Bayesian Estimation of a Censored AIDS Model for Whole Grain Products
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ishdorj,   Ariun; Jensen,   Helen H.
When using household-level data in examining consumer's demand it is common to find that consumers purchase only a subset of the available goods, setting the demand for the remaining goods to zero. Ignoring such censoring of the dependent variables in the estimation can lead to biased parameter estimates. In this paper we investigate the household's demand for six types of whole grain and non-whole grain breakfast cereals and products using a censored Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and estimate the parameters of the demand system via Bayesian methods. Using 2006 ACNielsen Homescan data we find that demand for whole grain and non-whole grain ready-to-eat cereals is less responsive to changes in prices; demand for whole-grain bars and non-whole grain hot...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: AIDS model; Bayesian econometrics; Censored; Cereals; Whole grains; Demand and Price Analysis; C11; C34; D12.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6075

Relative Importance of Factors Affecting Customer’s Decisions to Buy Pick-Your-Own Versus Preharvested Fruit at North Carolina Farms
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Carpio,   Carlos E.; Wohlgenant,   Michael K.; Safley,   Charles D.
This study identifies the most important factors affecting customers’ decisions to buy pickyour- own versus prepicked strawberries and muscadine grapes at direct-market operations in North Carolina. The relative importance analysis identified the region of location of the operations and prices as the explanatory variable explaining most of the variation observed in the customer’s decision to choose the type of fruit to purchase. The estimated price elasticities indicate that sales of each type of fruit are very sensitive to prices.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Conditional and random parameters logit models; Demand analysis; Pick-your-own fruit; Relative importance; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Financial Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47272

FOOD DECISION, INFORMATION AND PERSONALITY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Loheac,   Youenn; Combris,   Pierre; Issancou,   Sylvie.
This study introduce measures of personality traits in an experiment which associate willingness to pay for food and sensory analysis tools in order to explore potential links between personality and food decisions. Measure of personality traits comes from experimental economics (risk aversion and time preference) and from psychology (sensation seeking and impulsivity). We introduce them in the analysis of behaviours of participants in their food decisions (purchase intent, willingness to pay, reaction to new information), and underline some significant links.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food decision; Information; Experimental methods; Risk aversion; Time preference; Personality traits; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C91; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116434

Canadian Consumer Attitudes and Purchasing Behaviour of Omega-3 Products
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nilsson,   Tomas K.H.; Chase,   Darren; Emunu,   John Paul; McCann-Hiltz,   Diane; Peng,   Yanning.
The development of innovative functional food products is a major trend in today's food industry. The growth of this industry is driven by increased consumer awareness of their own health deficiencies, increased understanding of the possible health benefits of functional foods, development in formulation technologies, a positive regulatory environment and changing consumer demographics and lifestyles. While there has been a proliferation of omega-3 products such as milk, eggs, yogurt, and margarine in the Canadian food market, very little is known about consumers of omega-3 products.  In our study we use ACNielsen HomescanTM data combined with ACNielsen Panel TrackTM survey data to develop profiles of omega-3 consumers in Canada. The focus of the study is...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Omega-3 fatty acids; Nutritional labelling; Health benefits; Ordered probit model; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C81; D12; I19; Q19.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7713

LOW INCOME AND POOR HEALTH CHOICES: THE EXAMPLE OF SMOKING
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Binkley,   James K.
People with low incomes tend to make less healthy consumption choices than do high income people. In the case of food, agricultural economists have investigated whether this is due to the cost of a healthy diet. Studies of various aspects of the nutrition-income nexus have generally been inconclusive. We investigate a different possibility, motivated by the fact that low income individuals are most likely to be smokers, which cannot be due to limited budgets. Drawing on a body of related literature, we develop a model in which income serves not only as a budget constraint but also as a source of future utility. We test the model by estimating logistic models of beginning and quitting smoking. We find support for the idea that low income consumers make less...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Income; Food Choice; Smoking; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D12; I12; I18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58419

Micro-Demand Systems Analysis of Non-Alcoholic Beverages in the United States: An Application of Econometric Techniques Dealing With Censoring
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Alviola,   Pedro A., IV; Capps,   Oral, Jr.; Wu,   Ximing.
A censored Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) were estimated in modeling non-alcoholic beverages. Five estimation techniques were used, including the conventional Iterated Seemingly Unrelated Regression (ITSUR), two-stage methods such as the Heien and Wessells (1990) and the Shonkwiler and Yen (1999) approaches, the generalized maximum entropy method and the Amemiya-Tobin framework of Dong, Gould and Kaiser (2004). Our results based on various specifications and estimation techniques are quantitatively similar and indicate that price elasticity estimates have a greater variability in more highly censored non-alcoholic beverage items such as tea, coffee and bottled water as opposed to less censored...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Censored demand systems; AIDS; QUAIDS; Two-Step Methods; Generalized Maximum Entropy; Amemiya-Tobin Framework; Non-Alcoholic Beverages; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C34; D12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60462

Does Price or Income Affect Organic Choice? Analysis of U.S. Fresh Produce Users
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Smith,   Travis A.; Huang,   Chung L.; Lin,   Biing-Hwan.
This study analyzes consumer purchasing behavior of organic fresh fruits and vegetables using the 2006 Nielsen Homescan panel. An ordered logit model was estimated to quantify the impacts of economic and socio-demographic factors on the probability of a household belonging to a specific organic user group—devoted, casual, or nonuser. Results suggest that price and income, to some extent, affect consumer purchases of organic produce. Additionally, the profile of an organic produce user is most likely to consist of an Hispanic household residing in the Western United States with children under 6 years old and a household head older than 54 years with at least a college degree.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Nielsen Homescan data; Ordered logit; Organic fruits and vegetables; User groups; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C25; D12; M31; Q11.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56659

THE INFLUENCES OF AVIAN INFLUENZA, BSE, AND H1N1 INFLUENZA ON ATTITUDINAL CHANGES IN MEAT SAFETY ISSUES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hsu,   Jane Lu; Liu,   Kang Ernest; Lee,   Hwang-Jaw; Huang,   Min-Hsin; Hung,   Kelsey  Jing-Ru.
Consumption patterns for chicken and eggs have changed since the outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza (AI) throughout the world, but its potential impact on demand has not been thoroughly unveiled. Our study examines some important factors influencing behavioral changes and estimates their marginal effects by employing the censored regression model to survey data in Taiwan. Results showed that risk perceptions, overall knowledge and some socio-demographic characteristics were profound in determining changes in consumption of chicken and eggs. Public health education programs informing consumers about the AI threat may reduce their negative perceptions; therefore, consumption of chicken and eggs would not be decreased significantly enough to damage related...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Avian influenza; Knowledge; Risk perceptions; Censored regression model; Taiwan; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C21; D12; M30.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116405

Food Calorie Intake and Food Security under Grain Price Inflation: Evidence from Malawi
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Pan,   Suwen; Fang,   Cheng; Sanogo,   Issa; Mutuc,   Maria Erlinda M.
A comprehensive analysis of food demand and nutrient consumption using recent, representative household survey data from Malawi is presented. Expenditure and price elasticities have been estimated for 20 food groups using a quadratic almost ideal demand system based on 4 income groups identified by the Goldfeld-Quandt tests. Although the current boom of maize price provides an opportunity to rethink development strategies that diversify the commodity sectors, developing countries will not necessarily benefit from this change absent significant improvements in production capacities and trade infrastructures. Malawi is likely to suffer from higher commodity prices in the short-run.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Goldfeld-Quandt tests; A quadratic almost ideal demand system; Malawi; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; D12; O13; R21; R31; Q11; Q12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103266

Non-Farm Rural Activities (NFRA) in a Peasant Economy: The Case of the North Peruvian Sierra
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Velazco,   Jackeline.
Is it feasible to increase income and generate employment in the context of a traditional labour intensive rural industry with strong linkages to an agriculturally backward economy? In order to address this issue, primary data from four villages of Peruvian North Sierra was used. The case of the hat making activity, employing exclusively family labour, purchasing the main input (straw, paja de palma) from Ecuador, and with consumers concentrated on villages and small towns, was investigated. The analysis was made at the market level. Considering the context of a self-employment activity, a theoretical framework was developed to explain the determinants of labour demand, input demand, hat output and labour return. Demand and supply constraints to the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Non-farm rural activities; Self-employment activity; Peasant economy; Peru; Community/Rural/Urban Development; D12; D21; Q12.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25817

Food Prices and Blood Cholesterol
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rahkovsky,   Ilya; Gregory,   Christian A.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) cost Americans hundreds in billions of dollars. High cholesterol levels, which are closely related to diet habits, are a major contributor to CVD. In this paper we study whether changes in food prices are related to cholesterol levels and whether taxes or subsidies of particular foods would be effective in lowering cholesterol levels and, consequently, CVD costs. We find that prices of vegetables, processed foods, and whole milk and whole grains significantly affect the blood cholesterol levels. Having analyzed the costs and benefits of government interventions, we find that a subsidy of vegetables and whole grains would be the most efficient way to reduce CVD expenditures.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Cholesterol; CVD; Cardio-vascular; Food prices; Health; Welfare; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D04; D12; D62; H23; I19; Q18.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103566

APPLYING A METHOD OF PAIRED COMPARISONS TO MEASURE ECONOMIC VALUES FOR MULTIPLE GOODS SETS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rosenberger,   Randall S.; Peterson,   George L.; Loomis,   John B.
A method of paired comparison is adapted for use in estimating economic measures of value.  The method elicits multiple binary choices for paired items in a choice set.  Probability distributions and economic values are estimated nonparametrically and parametrically.  The method is applied in an experimental context with a choice set composed of four private goods and several sums of money.  The sample's median value estimtes for the goods are generally not different than the market prices for these goods.  People who are in the market for a good value it higher than those not in the market for the good.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Alternative gains; Economic valuation; Hypothetical market; Paired comparisons; Stated choice method; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; C51; C80; D12; Q26.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15516

The Impact Of Socio-Demographic Factors And Political Perceptions On Consumer Attitudes Towards Genetically Modified Foods: An Econometric Investigation
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Antonopoulou,   Lina; Papadas,   Christos T.; Targoutzidis,   Antonis.
This survey-based paper investigates the impact of socio-demographic factors, along with political perceptions, as expressed by attitudes towards globalization, on consumer attitudes towards GM foods, in Greece. Different aspects of consumer attitudes regarding GM foods are examined, such as general preference, banning, labeling, intention to purchase them at a sufficiently low price, the nutritional category of food product and the proximity of the genetic modification to the final product. Econometric analysis using Logit and Probit models was conducted. Estimates clearly show that in general, attitudes towards GM foods are not affected by socio-demographic characteristics. However, political perceptions are a significant influential factor.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Globalization; Political; Genetically modified food; Econometric; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; M31; R22.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58062

European Union Import Demand for In-Shell Peanuts
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Boonsaeng,   Tullaya; Fletcher,   Stanley M.; Carpio,   Carlos E.
This paper analyzes the European Union (EU) import demand for in-shell peanuts from three sources: the United States, China, and the rest of the world. We find that peanuts from different sources are differentiated by EU consumers. The expenditure elasticity is elastic for U.S. in-shell peanuts, which is associated with their higher quality. The conditional own price elasticities are more elastic for U.S. and Chinese in-shell peanuts. These findings have at least two implications. First, U.S. producers and exporters should direct efforts to ensure that in-shell peanuts exported to the EU are of the best possible quality, and, second, promotion efforts should stress the quality of U.S peanuts as an advertising tool.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: European Union import demand; In-shell peanuts; Nonlinear SAIDS; Agribusiness; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; International Relations/Trade; D12; Q11; Q17.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47269

Analysis of Import Demand for Wooden Beds in the U.S.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Wan,   Yang; Sun,   Changyou; Grebner,   Donald L.
The market of wooden beds in the U.S. has been flooded with imports from China and Vietnam in recent years. Static and dynamic Almost Ideal Demand System models are used to assess the import demand for wooden beds from the top seven supplying countries. The analyses reveal that the antidumping investigation on China has some temporary trade depression effect on China, but trade diversion occur  to Vietnam, Indonesia, Canada, and Brazil. The formal implementation of antidumping duties since 2005 has not shown any significant effect on the trade pattern. U.S. consumers spend more on beds from newly industrialized countries and there are moderate degrees of substitution among wooden beds from most countries.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Antidumping; Cointegration; Demand elasticity; Furniture; Trade diversion; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Financial Economics; Marketing; C32; D12; F14; Q23.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100522

Public Policies and the Demand for Carbonated Soft Drinks: A Censored Quantile Regression Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gustavsen,   Geir Waehler.
Heavy consumption of soda may contribute to obesity, strokes, and cardiac problems. From a health perspective, the distribution of the consumption is at least as important as the mean. Censored as well as ordinary quantile regression techniques were used to estimate the demand for sugary soda based on household data from 1989 to 1999. It was found that heavy drinkers are more price- and expenditure-responsive than are light drinkers. The study shows that increasing the taxes on carbonated soft drinks will lead to a small reduction in consumption for small and moderate consumers and a huge reduction for heavy consumers.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Soda demand; Quantile regression; Taxes; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; I10.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24737

The "more is less" phenomenon in Contingent and Inferred valuation
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Stachtiaris,   Spiros; Drichoutis,   Andreas C.; Klonaris,   Stathis.
2011) using the Contingent valuation (CV) as well as the Inferred valuation (IV) method (Lusk and Norwood 2009b). We find that when moving in the context of a familiar market for consumers (i.e., the food market) we only observe weak effects of inconsistencies. In addition, we find that the IV method is no better (and no worse) than the CV method in generating more consistent preference orderings. Surprisingly, we also find that the IV method generates higher valuations than CV, rendering one of its advantages of mitigating social desirability bias questionable.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Willingness-to-pay (WTP); Contingent Valuation (CV); Inferred Valuation(IV); Preference reversals; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; C9; C93; D12; Q51.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116013

Building Gorman's Nest
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: LaFrance,   Jeffrey T.; Beatty,   Timothy K.M.; Pope,   Rulon D.
Gorman Engel curves are extended to incomplete systems. The roles of Slutsky symmetry and homogeneity/adding up are isolated in the rank and functional form restrictions for Gorman systems. Symmetry determines the rank condition. The maximum rank is three for incomplete and complete systems. Homogeneity/adding up determines the functional form restrictions in complete systems. There is no restriction on functional form in an incomplete system. Every full rank and minimal deficit reduced rank Gorman system has a representation as a polynomial in a single function of income. This generates a complete taxonomy of indirect preferences for Gorman systems. Using this taxonomy, we develop models of incomplete Gorman systems that nest rank and functional form and...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Aggregation; Functional form; Gorman Engel curves; Incomplete demand systems; Rank; Weak integrability; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; E21.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25027

The Impact of Social Capital on the Implicit Price Paid by the Italian Consumer for Fair Trade Coffee
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bosbach,   Moritz; Maietta,   Ornella Wanda.
Consumers in developed countries are increasingly interested in the consumption of food products incorporating ethical aspects, particularly fair trade products. These products are usually distributed in a network of World Shops and, more recently, in supermarkets and shopping centres. The fair trade product with the highest market share is coffee. This study aims to ascertain the implicit price paid by Italian consumers for the fair trade content of coffee and how this implicit price is influenced by the level of social capital of the territory where consumers live. The data utilised are scanner data, based on the purchase at supermarkets and shopping centres observed from 2005 to 2007, referred to a territorial unit that is the province. Since scanner...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Hedonic price; Coffee; Fair trade; Scanner data; Italian consumers; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; C50; D12; L66; Z13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114371

Características de la demanda por carne bovina de la comunidad hispana en los estados Unidos de América.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lanfranco,   Bruno A.
A number of conclusions can be drawn from this research: 1) the NAFTA constitutes a key market for Uruguay beef; 2) beef import forecasts by the three NAFTA countries are placed in record numbers; 3) the Hispanic community is rapidly becoming the largest ethnic minority in the U.S., with an estimated yearly power purchase of more than $400 billion; 4) more than three-quarters of the Latino population in the U.S. concentrates in the West and South regions of the country; 64% live in urban areas of more than 1.2 million inhabitants. California (SE and NE of San Francisco and surroundings of Los Angeles) and Texas (Houston and El Paso influence areas) would be the main objectives for effective action through programs of marketing and promotion; 5) Hispanic...
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Consummers; Consumption patterns; Ethnic food; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; J15.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121667

Emerging Markets for GM Foods: A Study of  Consumer's Willingness to Pay in India
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Deodhar,   Satish Y.; Ganesh,   Sankar; Chern,   Wen S.
A random utility approach is used to estimate logit equations which indicate what factors affect the likelihood of consumption of non-GM and GM foods, and, whether or not consumers are willing to pay a premium for non-GM/GM foods.  Ceteris paribus as the price difference between non-GM and GM food rose, people were more likely to consume GM foods.  Likelihood of GM food consumption was higher in the middle income brackets.  Consumers were willing to pay an expected premium of 19.5% and 16.12% for golden rice and GM edible oil respectively.  In case of chicken, consumers seemed to pay a very negligible premium for non-GM fed chicken.  Overall, it appears that GM foods may be acceptable in the Indian market.  However, basic awareness about the GM foods may...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: GM Foods; Golden Rice; Bt cottonseed oil; GM fed chicken; Willingness to Pay; Random utility approach; Logit; India.; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q13; D12.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6348

None-of-These Bias in Stated Choice Experiments
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Alfnes,   Frode; Steine,   Gro.
We conduct a within-sample test of hypothetical bias and parameter equality between a hypothetical stated choice (SC) experiment using pictures and a real choice (RC) experiments using products. With exception of the none-of-these alternative-specific dummy, we cannot reject parameter equality between the two datasets. However, when we estimate the models separately with no parameter restrictions, the SC experiment gave WTP estimates that were approximately 50 percent higher and marginal WTP estimates that were almost two times as high as the corresponding estimates from the RC experiment. However, even though the monetary value of the WTP disparity was large, the disparity between the WTP estimates from the two data sets was not statistically significant.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Choice experiment; Hypothetical bias; Color; Mixed logit; Salmon; Willingness to pay; Consumer/Household Economics; C81; C93; D12; Q22.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24761

Will Changing Demographics Affect U.S. Cheese Demand?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Davis,   Christopher G.; Blayney,   Donald P.; Dong,   Diansheng; Yen,   Steven T.; Johnson,   Rachel J.
U.S. cheese consumption has grown considerably over the last three decades. Using a censored demand model and Nielsen Homescan retail data, this study identifies price and non-price factors affecting the demand for differentiated cheese products. Own-price and expenditure elasticities for all of the cheese products are statistically significant and elastic. Results also reveal that a strong substitution relationship exists among all cheese products. Although demographic influences are generally smaller than those related to prices and expenditures, empirical findings show that household size, college educated female heads of household who are age 40 and older, residing in the South, Central, and Western regions of the United States, as well as Black heads...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Cheese form; Cheese purchase; Demand elasticities; Demographic and economic factors; Nielsen Homescan data; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; C25; D12; Q11.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104621

Does Limited Access at School Result in Compensation at Home? The Effect of Soft Drink Bans in Schools on Purchase Patterns Outside of Schools
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Huang,   Rui; Kristin,   Kiesel.
This paper investigates the effects of banning soft drinks in schools on purchases outside of school. We utilize unique household-level and store-level data sources in combination with time-series and cross-sectional variation of state-level regulations in a difference-in-differences (DD) approach. We detect a decrease in the overall trend in sales, but observe this downward trend in households with and without children, as well as in states with and without regulation. Controlling for advertising allows us to further reject that leading brands intensify their advertising efforts and target children to potentially offset their reduced presence at schools. Finally, we find no evidence of substitution effects among possible beverage product alternatives. Our...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Soft drink bans; Soft drink consumption; Scanner data; Schools; Regulation; Difference-in-differences; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12; D18; L51; C93.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116417

A Flexible Multistage Demand System Based on Indirect Separability
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D11; D12; C51.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18514

Loving Cultural Heritage. Private Individual Giving and Prosocial Behavior
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bertacchini,   Enrico; Santagata,   Walter; Signorello,   Giovanni.
The aim of this paper is to analyse patterns of private individual giving to Cultural Heritage institutions in Italy. Based on the emerging economic literature on pro-social behavior, we carried out a Contingent Valuation survey to assess individuals’ willingness to donate to museums and heritage organizations according to different conditions and set of incentives. Our findings reveal that intrinsic motivations and accountability of the recipient institutions may be more effective drivers for eliciting charitable giving than the usually proposed fiscal incentives. The results provide avenues for future empirical research and policy suggestions for fund raising cultural institutions.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Charitable Giving; Cultural Heritage; Contingent Valuation; Pro-social Behavior; Financial Economics; D11; D12; H4; Z1.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59415

Economic Efficiency of Smallholder Irish Potato Producers in Kenya: A Case of Nyandarua North District
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nyagaka,   Daniel; Obare,   Gideon A.; Nguyo,   Wilson.
With declining Irish potato production trends in Kenya this paper identifies and analyses factors that influence the economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder farmers from Nyandarua North district. A dual stochastic parametric decomposition technique is used to disaggregate economic efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio-economic characteristics and institutional factors. Empirical results show decreasing returns to scale in production. The mean economic efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers association...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Efficiency; Productivity; Stochastic frontier functions; Kenya; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty; Land Economics/Use; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; D12; D24; O33; Q16.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49917

Food QUALITY VERIFICATION: WHO DO CONSUMERS TRUST?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hobbs,   Jill E.; Innes,   Brian G.; Uzea,   Adrian D.
Food markets are increasingly characterized by an array of quality assurances with respect to credence attributes, many of which relate to agricultural production methods. A variety of organizations are associated with these quality assurance claims, including private, third party and public sector organizations. How do quality verifications from different sources affect consumer food choices? Who do consumers trust for assurances about credence attributes? This paper draws upon two recent studies to explore Canadian consumer attitudes toward environmental quality claims in a bread product and animal welfare quality claims in a pork product, along with attitudes toward quality verification from different sources. Analysis from two discrete choice...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Choice experiment; Animal welfare; Environment; Quality verification; Heterogeneity; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Q13; Q18; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116425

Commodity Price Pass-Through in Differentiated Retail Food Markets
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Richards,   Timothy J.; Allender,   William J.; Pofahl,   Geoffrey M.
Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse.  Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but by early 2009 interest focused more on the seeming inability of food prices to fall back down with commodity prices.  This study provides an empirical investigation into the pass-through of commodity prices to retail prices for two different types of food products: potatoes and fluid milk.  The results show that pass-through depends on the nature of the food in question, but is generally consistent with theoretical models of pricing by sellers of multiple,...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Commodity prices; Conduct; Industrial organization; Inflation; Market power; Nested logit; Pass-through; Random parameters model; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; C35; D12; D43; L13; L41; Q13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61187

OBESITY AND HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Richards,   Timothy J.; Hamilton,   Stephen F.; Pofahl,   Geoffrey M.
Behavioral economists maintain that addictions such as alcoholism, smoking and over-eating represent examples of present-bias in decision making that is fundamentally irrational. In this article, we develop a model of present bias and apparently hyperbolic discounting that is fully consistent with rational behavior. We construct an experiment to test our hypothesis and to determine whether discount rates differ for individuals who engage in behaviors that could endanger their health. Our results show that discount functions are quasi-hyperbolic in shape, and that obesity and drinking are positively related to the discount rate. Anti-obesity policy, therefore, would be best directed to informing individuals as to the long-term implications of short-term...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Addiction; Discounting; Experiments; Hyperbolic; Obesity; Time-inconsistency; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C91; D12; D91; I18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116410

Television Advertising and Soda Demand
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lopez,   Rigoberto A.; Liu,   Yizao; Zhu,   Chen.
This study examines the effects of television advertising on consumer demand for carbonated soft drinks using a random coefficients logit model (BLP) with household and advertising data from seven U.S. cities over a three year period. We find that advertising decreases the price elasticity of demand, indicating that advertising plays predominantly a persuasive, therefore anti-competitive role in this market. Further results show that brand spillover effects are significant and that measuring advertising with gross rating points (GRPs) outperforms measuring it with expenditures, as is conventionally done. Finally, simulation results indicate that eliminating all television advertising would lower market shares of sodas as consumers migrate to other...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Advertising; Demand; Competition; Consumer behavior; Sodas; Carbonated soft drinks; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; Marketing; D12; L66; Q18; I18.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124445

Complements and Meat Demand in the U.S.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Davis,   Christopher G.; Stefanova,   Stela; Hahn,   William F.; Yen,   Steven T.
In this study we estimated the price elasticities among meats, vegetables, grains, and potatoes and the impact that different levels of income have on the demand for these commodities.  The 2005 Nielsen retail home scan data were used to construct a censored demand system of 14 equations.   Results revealed that the uncompensated cross-price elasticities for both low and high-incomes suggest both substitution and complement relationships, while the compensated price elasticities are dominated primarily by substitution relationships.  Our findings also revealed that expenditure elasticities among both low and high-income households differ for most commodities.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Censored dependent variables; Meats; Poultry; Fish; Vegetables; Sample selection model; Two-step estimation; Demand and Price Analysis; Livestock Production/Industries; C25; D12; Q11.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6406

Hedonic Retail Beef and Pork Product Prices
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Parcell,   Joseph L.; Schroeder,   Ted C.
Consumer-level hedonic models are estimated to determine factors affecting retail pork and beef meat cuts. Results indicate that brand premium and discount varies across private, national, and store brands and that brand premium varies across meat cuts carrying the same brand name. Product size discounts are linear for beef and nonlinear for pork, meat items on sale are significantly discounted to non-sale items, specialty stores typically will not garner higher prices than supermarket/grocery stores, and warehouse stores typically have premium prices relative to supermarket/grocery stores.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Beef; Brand premium; Hedonic modeling; Pork; Demand and Price Analysis; Livestock Production/Industries; Q13; D12; M31; M32.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6622

WHAT IS IT CONSUMERS REALLY WANT AND WHY? THE CASE OF FAT IN MILK
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Andersen,   Laura M.; Smed,   Sinne.
In this paper we investigate preferences for fat in milk through a structural characteristics model. The data includes information about daily purchases and social and demographic characteristics of approximately 2500 households. We find that consumers who prefer milk with a very high fat content can be reached both by information and prices, while consumers who prefer milk with a moderate to high fat share are not influenced by information, but are price sensitive. This is of great importance since these households drink a lot of milk and thereby get a considerable amount of fat through milk
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Fat in milk; Characteristics model; Hedonic prices; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116455

Eating Out in the British Isles
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Keelan,   Conor D.; Henchion,   Maeve M.; Newman,   Carol F.
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the foodservice industries in both Ireland and the UK. Each industry is analysed separately using the most recently available Household Budget Survey datasets for Ireland and the most recent Expenditure and Food Datasets for the UK and is disaggregated into quick-service (fast food and takeaway) and full-service (hotel and restaurant meals), the two largest components of each industry. A double hurdle model, adjusted for misspecification, is used in this analysis. A number of variables affect both dependent variables in the same way, for example, income and age and the number of workers variable, but differences are apparent throughout the discussion. Perhaps the most interesting point to highlight is how...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food-Away-From-Home; Quick-service; Full-service; Double Hurdle Model; Box-Cox Transformation.; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; D13; C34; R2.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/36859

Assessing Consumer Willingness to Pay for Value-Added Blueberry Products Using a Payment Card Survey
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hu,   Wuyang; Woods,   Timothy A.; Bastin,   Sandra; Cox,   Linda J.; You,   Wen.
This study offers insights on consumer acceptance and willingness to pay for three value-added blueberry products. A modified payment card approach was used. The analytical framework adopted allows the researcher to attach straightforward economic interpretation to the estimated impacts of willingness to pay factors. Results show consumer socio-economic characteristics are important determinants but play different roles depending on the products. Information on health benefits may also be important. However, it is found that outside information or consumer self-stated awareness of blueberries’ health benefits have different impacts. These impacts may function as substitutes rather than complements to each other.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Blueberry; Payment card contingent valuation; Value-added; Willingness to pay; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104617

Household food expenditures in the United States: A Bayesian MCMC approach to censored equation systems
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kasteridis,   Panagiotis P.; Yen,   Steven T.
We apply a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique, along with data augmentation to accommodate censoring in the dependent variables, to the estimation of a large expenditure system of food expenditures. Our finding of significant error covariance estimates justifies estimation of the system in improving statistical efficiency. Income, household composition, regions and other socio-demographic variables are found to play significant roles in determining household food expenditures.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Bayesian MCMC; Censored equation system; Consumer Expenditure Survey; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C11; C34; D12; C11; C34; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61763

Consumers' Decision between Private Labels and National Brands in a Retailer's Store: A Mixed Multinomial Logit Application
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bergès-Sennou,   Fabian; Hassan,   Daniel; Monier-Dilhan,   Sylvette; Raynal,   Helene.
We propose to analyze the determinants of consumers' brand decision within a retailer store using a multinomial mixed logit approach. For the consumers' choice, national brands compete with private labels (both me-too product and high quality store brand). We first find that the standard private label (me-too), independently of the price effect, performs better than all national brands in terms of consumers' utility. Second, the high-quality private label does not reach its target yet in term of consumers' acceptance due to a poor product characteristics perception. Last, it appears that households' objective socioeconomic variables (income, education and household size) do not play any role in private label perception, whereas objective consumption...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Brands; Consumers' choice; Mixed logit model; Willingness to pay.; Consumer/Household Economics; D12; L81; Q13.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9407

Local and Organic: Substitutes or Complements? An In-Store Evaluation of Labels for Apples
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Costanigro,   Marco; Kroll,   Stephan; Thilmany,   Dawn D.; Nurse,   Gretchen.
Over the past two decades, consumer demand for niche products has grown substantially. The primary objective of this paper is to disentangle the value consumers place on two prominent food claims, organic and local (defined as Colorado Proud in this study) as they relate to fresh produce.  Using primary data from a choice experiment conducted in a grocery store that has conducted co-promotional efforts with the Colorado Proud program, we found the value of the “local” claims trumps that of “organic” in apples.   However, the difference in results between the experiments that offered participants either one- or two-pounds is far more pronounced, illustrating how scaling may influence estimates in such market-based research.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Choice experiment; Local foods; Organic; Apple consumer demand; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Marketing; D12; Q11; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61537

Análisis de la demanda de alimentos en España considerando el impacto de la dieta sobre la salud
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Angulo,   Ana Maria; Mtimet,   Nadhem; Gil,   Jose Maria.
RESUMEN: En este trabajo se analiza la demanda de alimentos en España considerando la relación existente entre salud y dieta. Se plantea la maximización de una función de utilidad que depende de las cantidades demandadas de los distintos alimentos y del nivel de salud alcanzado, sujeto a dos restricciones: la presupuestaria y la relativa a la función de producción de salud. La solución al problema conduce a la estimación conjunta de un sistema de ecuaciones con dos componentes, una ecuación referida a la calidad de la dieta y un sistema de demanda de alimentos. Los resultados obtenidos indican, por un lado, que la introducción de la calidad de la dieta en un sistema de demanda (frente a un modelo que incluya únicamente renta y precios) modifica las...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demanda de alimentos; Salud; Calidad de la dieta; España.; Agricultural and Food Policy; D12; D13; Q11.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57231

Retail Competition in the Milk Market in a U.S. Midwestern City
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hovhannisyan,   Vardges; Gould,   Brian W.
The main goal of this manuscript is to explore the retailer conduct in the milk market in a U.S. Midwestern city, based upon a structural estimation of consumer milk demand and retailer optimality conditions. To model milk demand we rely upon the Almost Ideal Demand System, while allowing the retailer optimality conditions to cover a range of competitive scenarios from perfect competition to horizontal cartel. We employ a conjectural variation approach in the spirit of Newly Empirical Industrial Organization to study the competitive environment on the retail landscape.  We find that the retail market in question is far from being competitive, with the two major retailers being engaged in an oligopolistic competition. Furthermore, the private label milk...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: AIDS demand; Conjectural variation; Market power; Oligopolistic competition.; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; D11; D12; D43; L13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99281

The Effect of Retailer Concentration and Store Format on Consumers’ Food Purchasing Decisions
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Volpe,   Richard J., III; Okrent,   Abigail M.; Leibtag,   Ephraim S.
Replaced with revised version of paper 09/23/11.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food purchases; Supercenters; Obesity; Consumer behavior; Food retail; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Health Economics and Policy; Industrial Organization; L66; P46; D12; L11.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103448

Modeling Advertising Expenditures and Spillover Effects Applied to the U.S. Non-Alcoholic Beverage Industry: Vector Autoregression (VAR) and Polynomial Distributed Lag (PDL) Approaches
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.; Bessler,   David A.
The non-alcoholic beverage market in the U.S. is a multi-billion dollar industry growing steadily over the past decade. Also, non-alcoholic beverages are among the most heavily advertised food and beverage groups in the United States. Several studies pertaining to non-alcoholic beverages including the incorporation of advertising effects have been conducted, but most of these have centered attention on milk consumption. Some studies have considered demand interrelationships for several beverages including advertising effects in systems-wide analyses.  In our analysis, we develop and employ a unique monthly time-series data set derived from Nielsen Homsescan panels for household purchases of non-alcoholic beverages over the period from January 1998 through...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Non-alcoholic beverages; Vector autoregression; Polynomial distributed lags; Beverage advertizing; Directed acyclic graphs; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; C18; C22; C52; C53; C81; D11; D12.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124363

Risks Perceptions and Willingness-to-Pay for Organic Fresh Chicken in Argentina
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lacaze,   Maria Victoria; Rodriguez,   Elsa M.; Lupin,   Beatriz.
Contributed Paper prepared for presentation at the International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Risks perceptions; Hormone-free chicken; Willingness-to-pay; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; C25.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51016

Modelling Reference-Dependent and Labelling Effects in Consumers’ Functional Food Choices
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zou,   Ning Ning (Helen); Hobbs,   Jill E.
This paper examines the reference-dependent and labelling effects when consumers make choices about functional foods, and explores how changes in reference points could alter individuals’ preferences. Functional food (probiotic yogurt) and regular food (regular yogurt) are used as examples to explore the potential reference-dependent effects and labelling effects. A consumer utility model with reference point effects is developed. The paper also explores how to model the effects of different labelling (health claim) policies, which could influence consumer preferences by changing consumers’ reference points.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer utility; Functional food; Labelling policy; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D11; D12.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45496

Consumers’ Stated Choices versus Purchasing Desires: Case of Hawaii Food Baskets
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hu,   Wuyang; Cox,   Linda J.
This article uses a case study involving Hawaii food baskets to show that although a choice based conjoint experiment can elicit respondents’ most preferred alternative, this “preferred” option may not be one that respondents are willing to purchase. Thus, a choice based experiment that involves hypothetical product selection may predict different behavior, depending on the type of questions asked in the survey. This study shows that follow-up questions in a conjoint survey may serve an important role in improving model fit and the comprehensiveness of behavioral prediction.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Gift baskets in China; Preferred choice; Willing to purchase; Hypothetical selection; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Q13; D12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56632

Preferences, trust and willingness to pay for food information: An analysis of the Italian Market
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nocella,   Giuseppe; Stefani,   Gianluca; Romano,   Donato.
Lack of consumer trust and communication strategies are probably the main determinants of information failure in modern food markets. This study attempts to tackle these aspects affecting the quality of food information by investigating questions related to what topics are more relevant to consumers, who should disseminate trustful food information, and how communication should be conveyed. Primary data were collected both through qualitative (in depth interviews and focus groups) and quantitative research. Quantitative research was conducted by means of a questionnaire administered in 2006-2007 to a sample of Italian respondents using both a web and a traditional mail survey. Reading preferences, willingness to pay and trust towards public and private...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food information; Trust; Preference heterogeneity; Segmentation; Italy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; D18; D89; Q18.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114606

Off-farm Employment and Food Consumption at Home and away from Home: Evidence from Farm Households in Taiwan
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chang,   Hung-Hao; Yen,   Steven T.
A body of literature has addressed off-farm work by the farm household, but little is known about the association between off-farm work and food consumption. This paper investigates the extent to which off-farm employment by the farm operator and the spouse affects food expenditures at home and away from home. A dual treatment effect model is developed to estimate a simultaneous equation system of four food categories consumed at home and aggregate food away from home, with binary endogenous off-farm employment by the operator and spouse. Off-farm employment by farm operator and spouse both increase food expenditure away from home, while operator’s off-farm employment decreases staple food consumption at home. Socio-demographic characteristics also play...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Farm household; Food expenses; Off-farm employment.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Labor and Human Capital; Q12; J21; D12; C31.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51362

Organic Food Consumption Patterns in France
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hassan,   Daniel; Monier-Dilhan,   Sylvette; Nichele,   Veronique; Simioni,   Michel.
This research addresses two important issues for the future expansion of organic consumption in France. The first one is related to knowing whether the organic choice is a permanent feature of consumer’s attitude or not: Do organic buyers occasionally pick one organic product or do they choose organic for “several” categories? The second issue concerns the impact of prices on buying organics which is revisited, distinguishing between capturing new consumers and increasing the demand coming from people already involved in organic markets. These questions are examined using the market basket approach; the price issue requires further estimations of demand models. The study relies on two staple food products, eggs and milk. The findings are : (i) choosing...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Market basket approach; Purchasing behavior; Logit model; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C35; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53342

Buying Time: Real and Hypothetical Offers
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Smith,   V. Kerry; Mansfield,   Carol.
This paper provides the results of a field test of contingent valuation estimates within a willingness to accept framework. Using dichotomous choice questions in telephone mail-telephone interviews, we compare responses to real and hypothetical offers to survey respondents for the opportunity to spend time in a second set of interviews on an undisclosed topic. Five hundred and forty people were randomly split between the real and hypothetical treatments. Our findings indicate no significant differences between people's choices with real and hypothetical offers. Choice models indicate the size of the offer and income were significant determinants of respondents' decisions, and these models were not significantly different between real and hypothetical offers.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Contingent value; Real and hypothetical offer; Willingness to accept; Experiment; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; C93; D12; Q2.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10719

HOUSEHOLD FOOD CHOICE IN FOUR FOOD CATEGORIES: HEALTHY OR UNHEALTHY?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Binkley,   James K.; Golub,   Alla A.
The interest of this study is the tradeoff between nutrition and taste in consumer food choice.  We examine choice between more and less healthy versions of particular foods within four important grocery categories: breakfast cereal, milk, bread, and soft drinks.  Within a category, products do not greatly differ in terms of cost and convenience, and nutritional differences are easily determined.  Consumers are less likely to choose unhealthy foods due to cost or convenience advantages, or through ignorance. This makes the choice between taste and nutrition more apparent. We use annual expenditure data reported by a large sample of households participating in the AC Nielsen Homescan data system.  For each of the food categories we develop a measure of...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Nutrition; Food; Consumer Choice; Health; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D12; I12; I18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58418

The Taste for Variety: A Hedonic Analysis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Drescher,   Larissa S.; Thiele,   Silke; Weiss,   Christoph R.
Based on the model of consumers' variety-seeking behavior introduced by Anderson et al. (1992), this paper derives a hedonic price function for a households' consumption bundle. The price a consumer pays for her consumption bundle reflects the values of the underlying attributes of goods purchased but also accounts for any preference for variety that she might have. The empirical analysis is conducted for 3,240 German households and their expenditure on 182 different soft drinks over a six-month period. We find that consumers have a preference for variety in food consumption, ceteris paribus. Furthermore, the per-unit price is found to be significantly larger for higher income households, as well as households where the principal wage earner has a high...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer demand; Taste for variety; Food products; Hedonic analysis; Germany; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C21; D12.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25251

Consumer and Market Responses to Mad-Cow Disease
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Schlenker,   Wolfram; Villas-Boas,   Sofia Berto.
We examine how consumers and financial markets in the United States react to two health warnings about mad cow disease: The first discovery of an infected cow in December 2003 as well as health warnings about the potential effects aired in the highly-watched Oprah- Winfrey show seven years earlier. Using a unique UPC-level scanner data set, we find a pronounced and significant reduction in beef sales following the first discovered infection. This effect slowly dissipates over the next three months. Interestingly, no significant impact can be detected in the diary files of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) that has a much smaller sampling frame. However, futures prices show a comparable drop in prices to the scanner data. Contracts with longer maturity...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food safety; Mad cow diseases; Consumer expenditure survey; Scanner data; Futures prices; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries; D12; Q18; M31.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7164

Contribution of Economics to Design of Sustainable Cattle Breeding Programs in Eastern Africa: A Choice Experiment Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ouma,   Emily Awuor; Abdulai,   Awudu.
Although livestock forms a very important component of the livelihoods of rural populations of developing countries, productivity remains very low. Livestock keepers are beset by various constraints. In sub-Saharan Africa, cattle are exposed to a number of tropical diseases and other environmental stresses. Breed improvement programs provides key entry points for increasing productivity in cattle populations, especially those plagued by animal diseases. However, breed improvement programs have tended to focus on single, market-driven production traits in isolation of broader livestock system functions. This potentially leads to genotypes that are not well adapted to the environment and not suitable for performing the multiple roles of cattle in developing...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Choice experiment; Cattle production system; Trait preferences; Trypanotolerance; Livestock Production/Industries; D12; D60; C35.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25587

Media Impact of Nutrition Information on Food Choice
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Shiratori,   Sakiko; Kinsey,   Jean D.
This study estimated the impact of nutrition information provided by popular media on consumers’ purchases in U.S. grocery stores, taking omega-3 fortified eggs as an example. The media index was constructed from multiple information sources by utilizing computer-coded content analysis. Their probability of purchasing omega-3 eggs between 1998 and 2007 based on household-level scanner data was analyzed by logistic regression models to incorporate elements of information effects. The results showed the significant positive impact of nutritional information from the popular media on consumers’ food choices, thus publishing in popular media can be an effective communication approach to promote consumers’ health.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer Economics; Content Analysis; Functional Food; Information economics; Logit; Omega-3 Fatty Acids; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; D83.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103850

Solidarity Economies in Marche, Italy: current trends and perspectives
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Belletti,   Matteo; Orazi,   Francesco; Socci,   Marco; Giovagnoli,   Marco; Pojaghi,   Barbara.
The paper illustrates selected results of an exploratory research study coordinated by the “Solidarity Economy Network” of the Marche Region in Italy (REES Marche) in 2010-2011. The study was funded by Banca Popolare Etica, it involved three Universities of the Region (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Università di Macerata, Università di Camerino), adopting an interdisciplinary approach. It aimed at investigating the cultural, economic and political determinants that characterize the world of critical consumption, examining a sample of 20 GAS (Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale, Solidarity Purchasing Groups), 182 GAS members and 50 firms (among which 20 agricultural GAS suppliers). Data was collected through ad hoc questionnaires, in depth interviews and...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Critical consumption; Active citizenship; Territorial networks; Alternative and non-market relations; Short food supply chain; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; A13; D12; Z13; Q12; Q56; Q57.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124127

Gender Differences in Pro-social Behaviour: The Case of Fair-trade Food Consumers
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: De Devitiis,   Biagia; De Luca,   Anna Irene; Maietta,   Ornella Wanda.
Objective of this paper is to analyse the presence of gender differences in the purchase motivations of Fair Trade (FT) food products sold in the Italian World Shops (WS). At this end, a questionnaire has been distributed to a sample of consumers in four Italian regions. A bivariate ordered probit analysis has been performed in order to identify the determinants of the two main ethical motivations in the purchase: worker guarantees and solidarity. The variables used as determinants are individual and municipal characteristics. Among individual characteristics, gender is significant; among the municipal characteristics, the rate of female job market participation is also significant. These results give evidence of a gender gap in the preferences for public...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Ethical consumerism; Gender preferences; Fair trade; Consumer/Household Economics; Labor and Human Capital; D12; I31; L31; Z13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114372

U.S. Fluid Milk Demand: A Disaggregated Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Davis,   Christopher G.; Dong,   Diansheng; Blayney,   Donald P.; Yen,   Steven T.; Stillman,   Richard.
The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review is published quarterly by IFAMA. www.ifama.org
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Censored demand; Fluid milk; Nielsen Homescan; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Land Economics/Use; Productivity Analysis; Public Economics; C25; C34; D12.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120856

Flower Power at the Dutch Flower Auctions? Application of an Inverse Almost Ideal Demand System
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Steen,   Marie.
Information on price-quantity relationships will enable flower producers to reduce risk and raise profits through better timing of rotations as well as better utilization of limited greenhouse space. The present paper presents econometric evidence on such price-quantity relationships for major species of cut flowers at the Dutch flower auctions. Specifically, an inverse linear approximate almost ideal demand model with seasonal adjustments is applied. This paper is introducing trigonometric functions as a flexible and inexpensive alternative that outperforms standard seasonal dummies. Major findings are that all flexibilities (quantity elasticities) are strongly significant. Own price flexibilities are negative as expected. The own flexibilities vary...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Risk management; Cut flower production; Inverse linear AIDS; Seasonality; Trigonometric functions; Demand and Price Analysis; Q11; D12.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25441

You Can Pick Your Friends, But You Need to Watch Them: Loan Screening and Enforcement in a Referrals Field Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bryan,   Gharad; Karlan,   Dean S.; Zinman,   Jonathan.
We examine a randomized trial that allows separate identification of peer screening and enforcement of credit contracts. A South African microlender offered half its clients a bonus for referring a friend who repaid a loan. For the remaining clients, the bonus was conditional on loan approval. After approval, the repayment incentive was removed from half the referrers in the first group and added for half those in the second. We find large enforcement effects, a $12 (100 Rand) incentive reduced default by 10 percentage points from a base of 20%. In contrast, we find no evidence of screening.
Tipo: Working Paper
Palavras-chave: Information asymmetries; Credit market failures; Peer networks; Social capital; Social networks; Consumer/Household Economics; Financial Economics; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; C93; D12; D14; D82; O12; O16.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121674

Analyzing pork purchases at the point of sale – The role of consumer involvement
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Grebitus,   Carola; Colson,   Gregory; Menapace,   Luisa.
Involvement is an important psychological construct for understanding consumers’ underlying purchase decision process and those factors that shape product perceptions. In order to better understand consumer purchase behavior for low and high priced pork cuts, a series of field interviews at a variety of food retailers were conducted with actual pork shoppers using the New Involvement Profile (NIP) developed by Jain and Srinivasan (1990). In addition to responses to a series of questions designed to assess consumers’ involvement when purchasing pork, informational elements including socio-demographic information and pork attributes (e.g., origin, advertisement, on sale) were also included in the analysis. Key results from the study show individuals with...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Pork; Purchase behavior; Consumer involvement; Point of sale; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Marketing; C93; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103401

Consumer Welfare and the Loss Induced by Withheld Information: The Case of BSE in Italy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mazzocchi,   Mario; Stefani,   Gianluca.
The paper develops a measure of consumer welfare losses associated with withheld information about BSE linkage with vCJD. food safety. The Cost of Ignorance (COI) is measured by comparing the utility of the informed choice with the utility of the uninformed one, under condition of improved information. Unlike previous work, based on a single equation demand model, the measure is obtained retrieving a cost function from a dynamic Almost Ideal Demand System. The results indicate that Italian consumers bore a significant loss because of the delayed release of information.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food safety; Welfare analysis; Information; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; BSE; D80; D60; D12.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24927

Experimental Evidence of Risk Aversion in Consumer Markets: The Case of Beef Tenderness
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Alfnes,   Frode; Rickertsen,   Kyrre; Ueland,   Oydis.
Consistency of quality is important for brand loyalty and market share in consumer markets. Among consumers of beef, tenderness is the primary quality attribute. We use an experimental auction market to investigate how inconsistency in tenderness affects consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for beef. We find that both the level and the spread of tenderness affect consumers’ WTP for beef. Categorization the beef into various classes of tenderness increased the total value of the beef by 8%, which suggests that improved tenderness labeling may be a profitable strategy.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Beef tenderness; Consumer demand; Experimental auction; Marketing; Risk aversion; Consumer/Household Economics; C91; D12; D8; Q13.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24553

Does Marginal Price Matter? A Regression Discontinuity Approach to Estimating Water Demand
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nataraj,   Shanthi; Hanemann,   W. Michael.
Although complex pricing schedules are increasingly common in utility billing, it is difficult to determine whether consumers respond to complicated marginal prices because price changes are often confounded with simultaneous demand shocks or non-price policies. To overcome this challenge, we exploit a natural experiment - the introduction of a third price block in an increasing block pricing schedule for water - in Santa Cruz, California. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that consumers do respond to changes in marginal price. Doubling marginal price led to a 12% decrease in water use (500 cubic feet per bill) among high-use households.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Water demand; Regression models; Price policy; Consumer behavior; Demand and Price Analysis; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; Q21; Q25; L95.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47078

Reacting to law based technological change: opportunities derived from organizational learning in the Italian poultry sector
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Martino,   Gaetano; Polinori,   Paolo; Pompei,   Fabrizio.
A ban on using Antimicrobic Growth Promoters (AGPs) in the poultry sector has recently come into force in accordance with European Union norms. This innovation of the institutional environment greatly influences the technology in use. This study conceptualizes the poultry industry in terms of technological paradigm and technological trajectory and suggests that the expected changes are costly to achieve due to the scarcity of technological opportunities. The idea proposed is that the interactions among agents along the supply chain may contribute to the solution of the emerging issues. The empirical outcomes map the skill creation in the existing networks of technicians and growers supporting the exchange of information and knowledge. These also suggest...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Farm Management; D12.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61602

Investigating Thai Shopping Behaviour: Wet-Markets, Supermarkets and Food Quality
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gorton,   Matthew; Sauer,   Johannes; Supatpongkul,   Pajaree.
An analysis of primary survey data on Thai shopping behavior seeks to understand the relative satisfaction of consumers with wet markets and supermarkets and identify the factors that affect frequency of visit to, and purchase behavior within, these retail outlets. This is used as a basis for engaging in wider debates on the ‘supermarket revolution’ in Asia. On all salient attributes affecting retail outlet choice, wet markets are perceived, in general, to be inferior to supermarkets. However for fresh produce sales, wet markets retain an advantage. Both socio-economic characteristics and retail outlet attributes are considered as determinants of food shopping behavior. Bootstrapped bivariate ordered probit models identify that those using wet markets more...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food choice; Retail; Thailand.; Consumer/Household Economics; D12; L81; P46.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51054

FOOD SAFETY INFORMATION AND MEAT DEMAND IN SPAIN
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Radwan,   Amr; Gil,   Jose Maria; Ben Kaabia,   Monia; Serra,   Teresa.
This paper analyses the impact of food safety information about the “mad-cow” crisis on the demand for different types of fresh meat and fish in Spain. The theoretical model explicitly incorporates food safety information in the consumers’ utility function, from which demand equations are obtained. Two alternative functional forms have been considered, the standard AIDS and the Generalized Almost ideal Demand System (GAIDS) in order to overcome the problem of incorporating demand shifters in the traditional AIDS model. The food safety information has been incorporated into the demand function through a weighted information index built on the basis of the published news related to the mad-cow disease in the most popular Spanish newspaper. The comparison of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Meat consumption; Food safety information; BSE; Demand systems; GAIDS; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q11; C32; D12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51540

DETERMINANTS OF THE DEMAND FOR ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FRESH MILK IN GERMANY– AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Schrock,   Rebecca.
An increasing number of studies deals with consumer decisions regarding organic food, but only a few provide quantitative estimates of price and income elasticities. This paper contributes to the existing literature by providing own-price elasticity estimates as well as an analysis of the sociodemographic determinants of demand for organic milk. The analysis is based on the GfK Consumer Scan Scanner panel dataset on food purchases of German households covering a sample period of four years from 2004 to 2007. A two-step estimation procedure is applied. First, a probit regression examines which household characteristics affect the probability to buy organic milk. Second, a fixed-effects panel regression determines factors that have an impact on the quantity...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Organic milk; Household Panel; Probit Analysis; Fixed-Effects-Panel Analysis; Price elasticity; Private-labels; Germany; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C23; C24; C25; D12; M31; Q11.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116387

Evidence on the Amenity Value of Wetlands in a Rural Setting
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bin,   Okmyung; Polasky,   Stephen.
This study uses a hedonic property price method to estimate how wetlands affect residential property values in a rural area. The study utilizes wetland inventory data coupled with extensive property sales records between January 2000 and September 2004 from Carteret County, NC. Our results indicate that i) a higher wetland percentage within a quarter mile of a property, ii) closer proximity to the nearest wetland, and iii) larger size of the nearest wetland are associated with lower residential property values. These results contrast with previous hedonic studies that use data from urban areas, which found positive associations between wetland and property values. The amenity value of wetlands appears to depend at least as much on the characteristics of...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Hedonic prices; Housing market; Rural area; Wetlands; D12; Q24; Q26; R21.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42789

On Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Combat the Obesity Problem
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D11; D12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61322

Food Scares and Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mazzocchi,   Mario; Lobb,   Alexandra E.; Traill,   W. Bruce.
In this paper a consumer food choice model based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) is extended to account for risk perception and trust. The data are from a nationally representative European survey of 2 725 respondents from five countries, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The model relates the intention to purchase chicken in an extended TPB framework, which incorporates risk perceptions, and trust in alternative sources of food safety information. This model was run for two behaviours of interest: the standard likelihood of intention to purchase and the likelihood of intention to purchase conditional on news about a salmonella incident. The model has good predictive power and shows distinct country differences. Only in...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food safety information; Trust; Risk perception; Theory of Planned Behaviour; Chicken; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D80; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25613

Consumer valuation of health attributes in food
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Smed,   Sinne; Hansen,   Lars Garn.
In modern societies consumers often face a trade-off between health and taste, the latter which encourages consumption of fatty, salty and sweet foods, whereas health awareness discourages consumption of the same food. The resulting diet, often rich in calories, sweeteners and fat constitutes a threat to public health as poor nutrition has been linked to several types of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis as well as overweight and obesity. In this study we use the hedonic model as an outset to model consumer valuation of nutritional and non-nutritional characteristics of food consumption in a consistent way, accounting for that nutrients might influence utility both through health and through taste. This implies that a given...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Hedonic model; Taste; Health; Food consumption; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12; I12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116390

Consumer incentives to comply with nutritional recommendations – an economic approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dejgaard Jensen,   Jorgen; Hansen,   Aslak H.; Fagt,   Sisse; Velsing Groth,   Margit.
Inappropriate diets have been found to cause long-term health problems in most industrial and post-industrial countries worldwide. Despite the existence of dietary guidelines in many countries – and widespread familiarity with these guidelines – large shares of the populations do not comply with these guidelines. The objective of the paper is to investigate economic explanations for non-compliance quantitatively, focusing on consumers’ perceived value of reduced freedom of choice, if they should comply with the dietary recommendations. The paper establishes and econometric simulation model for Danish food consumers, which is used for calculating these economic welfare losses, as well as the contribution to these losses from individual recommendations....
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Nutritional guidelines; Compensating variation; Econometric model; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12; I12; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116432

A double-hurdle model of Irish households' foodservice expenditure patterns
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Keelan,   Conor D.; Henchion,   Maeve M.; Newman,   Carol F.
The aim of this paper is to analyse the various factors fuelling demand for Food- Away - From- Home (FAFH) in Ireland. The two largest components of this industry, the quick- service sector (fast food and takeaway) and the full- service sector (hotel and restaurant meals), are analysed using the most recently available Household Budget Survey data for Ireland. The results from a Box- Cox double hurdle model indicate that different variables affect expenditure in the different sectors in different ways. Income has a greater effect on full- service expenditure than on quick- service. Similarly households that are healthconscious indicate a greater preference for full- service meals while households with higher time values indicate a greater preference for...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Foodservice; Food- Away- From- Home; Quick- service; Fullservice; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; D13; C34; R2.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10083

Impact of Changes in Dietary Preferences on U.S. Retail Demand for Beef: Health Concerns and the Role of Media
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Miljkovic,   Dragan; Mostad,   Daniel.
The goal of this study is twofold: to determine if in the long run health concerns affect, via changes in consumer dietary preferences, the retail demand for beef in the United States and to establish if media coverage of popular diets (media frenzy) causes the change in retail demand for beef, or if it simply reports the facts about the changes in consumer dietary preferences.  Data used in the analysis are the quarterly retail demand index for beef and the number of newspaper articles and magazine features on low-fat, low-cholesterol and low-carb diets published in the United States between 1990:I and 2004:IV. Johansen's cointegration method and vector error correction (VEC) model based Granger causality test were used in the long-run and short-run...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Health concerns; Media; Demand for beef; Cointegration; VEC; Granger causality; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19487

CONSUMER PREFERENCES AS DRIVERS OF THE COMMON  BEAN TRADE IN TANZANIA: A MARKETING PERSPECTIVE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mishili,   Fulgence J.; Temu,   Anna A.; Fulton,   Joan R.; Lowenberg-DeBoer,   James.
The objective of this study was to determine the impact of bean grain quality characteristics on market price. The data was collected from retail markets in Tanzania. Hedonic pricing provides a statistical estimate of premiums and discounts. Implications for development of bean markets include: i) extension agents should identify cost-effective ways to educate producers on targeting urban market niches based on consumer preferences for varieties, ii) breeding for bruchid resistant beans and use of appropriate storage technologies would alleviate the problems of storage damage, and iii) requiring a portfolio of grain quality characteristics to fit consumer preferences in local markets.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Beans; Markets; Consumer preferences; Hedonic; Storage; Tanzania; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48644

DISCOVERING NICHE MARKETS: A COMPARISON OF CONSUMER WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR LOCAL (COLORADO GROWN), ORGANIC, AND GMO-FREE PRODUCTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Loureiro,   Maria L.; Hine,   Susan E.
Demand for value-added products is highly segmented among different types of consumers.  In this article, we assess consumer preferences for local, organic, and GMO-free potatoes in order to discover their potential niche markets.  We identify sociodemographic characteristics that affect consumer preferences and compare the effects of different attributes on  consumers' willingness to pay.  Results suggest that the attribute "Colorado grown" carries a higher willingness to pay than organic and GMO-free attributes.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Colorado grown; GMO-free; Local product; Niche market; Organics; Payment card; Willingness to pay; Consumer/Household Economics; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15073

Consumer preferences for ground beef packaged under a modified atmosphere
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Grebitus,   Carola; Jensen,   Helen H.; Sebranek,   Joseph G.; Roosen,   Jutta; Anders,   Sven M.
The main objective of this paper is to identify factors that determine consumers’ purchase decisions for ground beef offered with different packaging technologies. Consumers’ increasing knowledge about food technologies and changes in food labeling regulation influence agribusiness’ future product development and marketing strategies. Non-hypothetical choice experiments with ground beef, conducted in the USA, are used to quantify consumers’ valuation of technology-related attributes namely shelf life, color and packaging. How alternative types of information affect consumers’ WTP is of particular importance to processors and food safety analysts. This paper’s methodological contribution lies in applying advanced methods to elicit consumers' estimates of...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Non-hypothetical choice experiments; Modified atmosphere packaging; Ground beef; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Q13; C9; D12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51649

Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Genetically Modified Foods in Kenya
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kimenju,   Simon Chege; De Groote,   Hugo.
A survey of 600 consumers was conducted in Nairobi to determine attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for GM maize meal. WTP was estimated using the double-bounded logit model. Overall, 38% are aware of GM crops. Most consumers believe in the technology's positive impacts, but are concerned about environmental and health risks. Majority (68%) would buy GM maize meal at the price of their favourite maize meal brand. The mean WTP for GM maize meal is KShs 58 for a 2kg packet, a premium of 13.7 % over mean average price of favourite brands. WTP is influenced more by subjective than socioeconomic characteristics.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: GMO; Biotechnology; Consumer; Africa; Maize; Consumer/Household Economics; D12; C25; Q16.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24504

On the Solutions to Full Rank Three Gorman Systems
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: LaFrance,   Jeffrey T.
This letter closes a gap in the set of solutions for the full rank three systems of Gorman Engel curves and presents a unified expression for the indirect preferences in this case.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Aggregation; Rank; Functional form; Integrability; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; E21.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25048

Consumer Likelihood to Purchase Chickens with Novel Production Attributes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bernard,   John C.; Pesek,   John D., Jr.; Pan,   Xiqian.
Typical supermarket chickens are produced with novel or controversial attributes.  This continues despite contrasting growth in consumer interest in organic and natural foods.  This study surveyed Delaware consumers’ likelihood to purchase chicken given different attributes: free range, given antibiotics, irradiated, fed genetically modified (GM) fee, GM chicken, and price.  Examining conjoint analysis data with a heteroskedastic two-limit tobit model, GM chicken and other novel attributes were found to lower purchase likelihood significantly.  Understanding these results should help the industry meet consumer preferences while aiding its continued expansion to benefit workers and growers across the South.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Antibiotics; Chicken; Conjoint analysis; Genetically modified; Heteroskedastic; Irradiated; Tobit; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q13; D12; C24.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6058

Households’ WTP for the Reliability of Gas Supply
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chou,   Wan-Jung; Bigano,   Andrea; Hunt,   Alistair; La Branche,   Stephane; Markandya,   Anil; Pierfederici,   Roberta.
The security of natural gas supply is an important issue for all EU countries due to the region’s heavy dependence on imported supply sources and in light of energy demand for gas that is continuously increasing. Discussions have emphasised strategies for securing the supply at the macro level, e.g. diversification in supply sources, increase in storage capacity, etc. By contrast, consumers’ demand for the reliability of gas supply is rarely investigated. Hence this study was conducted to examine the economic implications associated with the security of gas supply directly to domestic consumers. Based on the choice experiment approach, household surveys were conducted in France, Italy and the UK. The results confirmed that the degree of the economic impact...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Energy Security; Gas Supply; Households; Willingness to Pay; Choice Experiment; EU; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; C35; C83; C93; D12; Q41.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/115740

Livestock Husbandry between Ethics and Economics: Finding a Feasible Way Out by Target Costing?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Theuvsen,   Ludwig; Essmann,   Sandra; Brand-Sassen,   Henning.
Livestock husbandry is a major line of conflict in many industrialized countries. Farmers are caught in a dilemma between ethical considerations imposed by, for instance, nongovernmental organizations and the wider public on the one hand and competitive and economic pressures on the other. In this paper we use a target-costing approach to determine whether it is possible to implement more animal-friendly husbandry conditions for turkey fattening in Germany without sacrificing competitiveness. Empirical results show that, at first glance, the willingness on the part of consumers to pay for more animal welfare exceeds the costs to farmers of more animal-friendly husbandry systems. A critical discussion reveals that this result may be flawed by methodological...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Animal welfare; Livestock husbandry; Target costing; Willingness to pay; Livestock Production/Industries; D12; D63; Q12.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24598

Canadian Chicken Industry: Consumer Preferences, Industry Structure and Producer Benefits from Investment in Research and Advertising
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Goddard,   Ellen W.; Shank,   Benjamin; Panter,   Chris; Nilsson,   Tomas K.H.; Cash,   Sean B.
The Canadian chicken industry has operated under supply management since the mid-1970s. Canadian consumer preferences for chicken have grown dramatically since then possibly in response to concerns about health and the levels of fat and cholesterol in red meats. However Canadian consumers are also looking for convenience with their food purchases. Canadians are buying their chicken in frozen further processed forms, fresh by cut without skin and bone and in a variety of other different ways reflecting their unique willingness to pay for various attributes. There is also an increasing trend for retailers and processors to brand the fresh chicken product sold through grocery stores (for example, Maple Leaf Prime). The preferences Canadian consumer have for...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer behaviour; Chicken consumption; Differentiated products; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; D12; Q11; Q18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52088

Estimation of Food Demand Patterns in South Africa Based on a Survey of Households
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Agbola,   Frank W.
South Africa is emerging as a major player in the world agricultural products market.  This study investigates aggregate food demand patterns in South Africa using a linear approximate almost ideal demand system (LA/AIDS) modeling framework.  Data from a 1993 integrated national household survey are employed in the analysis.  Empirical results show that demand for meat and fish, grains, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, and other foods are generally price elastic.  The expenditure elasticities imply that meat and fish and grains are luxury products, whereas dairy products, fruits, vegetables and other foods are necessities in the household diet.  The results also indicate that if income of households increases food expenditure on meat and fish and grains...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Household food demand; LA/AIDS model; South Africa; C21; D12.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43202

Promotion and Fast Food Demand: Where's the Beef?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Richards,   Timothy J.; Padilla,   Luis.
Many believe that fast food promotion is a significant cause of the obesity epidemic in North America. Industry members argue that promotion only reallocates brand shares and does not increase overall demand. This study weighs into the debate by specifying and estimating a discrete/continuous model of fast food restaurant choice and food expenditure that explicitly accounts for both spatial and temporal determinants of demand. Estimates are obtained using a unique panel of Canadian fast food consumers. The results show that promotion primarily increases demand and has very little effect on restaurant market shares.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer demand; Discrete choice; Fast food; Pricing strategy; Promotion; Spatial modeling; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing; C25; D12; I18; L66; M31.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7711

Modelling functional food choice and health care impacts: A literature review
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zou,   Ning Ning (Helen); Hobbs,   Jill E.
The global market for functional foods is estimated to be worth about US$33 billion (Hilliam, 2000). Given the information asymmetry inherent in functional foods, labelling information plays a key role in allowing consumers to make informed choices. Understanding consumer choices with respect to functional foods is an important new area of research. Several potential consumer choice models are available to assess consumer choices for functional food. This paper provides an overview of key consumer research questions, and a review of several different models, including the Stated Preference Choice Model with Discrete Choice Analysis, Dependent Preference Model, and modified Protection Motivation Theory.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Information asymmetry; Stated preference models; Protection motivation; Functional food; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q13; I1; D12; D82.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91556

Are consumers willing to pay more for biodegradable containers than for plastic ones? Evidence from hypothetical conjoint analysis and nonhypothetical experimental auctions
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Yue,   Chengyan; Hall,   Charles R.; Behe,   Bridget K.; Campbell,   Benjamin L.; Dennis,   Jennifer H.; Lopez,   Roberto G.
This study utilized and compared hypothetical conjoint analysis and non-hypothetical experimental auctions to elicit floral customers' WTP for biodegradable plant containers. The results of the study show that participants were willing to pay a price premium for biodegradable containers but the premium is not the same for different types of containers. This paper also shows the mixed ordered probit model generates more accurate results when analyzing the conjoint analysis internet survey data than the ordered probit model.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Biodegradable; Willingness to pay; Marketing; Carbon footprint; Waste composition; Green industry; Nursery crops; Floriculture crops; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60968

Factors Influencing Demand for a Producer-Owned Beef Retail Outlet
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lusk,   Jayson L.; Cevallos,   Edgar.
As the farm-to-retail price spread continues to grow, come cattle producers a beginning to consider integrating into the retail sector. Such a venture would require large investments in capital with uncertain return. This study seeks to determine the potential success of a stand-alone retail outlet selling “all natural” beef in an affluent area of Jackson, MS. Using choice-based conjoint analysis, demand for the new retail outlet is modeled as a function of the beef price at the store, distance of the store from consumers’ homes, distance of the store from consumers’ typical grocery store, and price of beef at substitute grocery stores. Simulation results suggest the proposed outlet could be a profitable venture, depending upon location and beef price.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Beef; Conjoint; Demand; Retail outlet; Q13; D12; D4; M31.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42939

Consumer Demand for Quality: Major Determinant for Agricultural and Food Trade in the Future?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Caswell,   Julie A.; Joseph,   Siny.
The impact of consumer demand for quality on the agricultural and food system is an increased emphasis on quality differentiation but not all in the direction of upgrading quality. The more elite market segments are thriving and reaching growing numbers of consumers but the basic price/quality markets remain strong. Most recent economic studies find that consumers are willing to pay for food safety and other quality attributes, and for information about them. The magnitude of the valuations varies by food product, attribute, country, and study design. This literature and a case study of genetically modified foods suggest that consumer demand has a strong effect on agricultural and food trade.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food quality; Food safety; Consumer demand; Willingness to pay; International trade; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; L15; Q18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7390

Food Security in Afghanistan: Household-level Evidence from the 2007-08 Food Price Crisis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: D'Souza,   Anna; Jolliffe,   Dean.
Replaced with revised version of paper 10/20/10.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food security; High food prices; Nutrition; Poverty; Afghanistan; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; D12; I3.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61139

Socially Optimal Taxation of Alcohol: The Case of Czech Beer
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Janda,   Karel; Mikolasek,   Jakub; Netuka,   Martin.
The proposed paper belongs to the literature on food demand and optimal taxation and to the literature dealing with economics of alcohol production and consumption. We investigate the question of optimal taxation for the commodity whose consumption has positive and negative features both for individual consumer and for the society. The commodity we analyze is the Czech beer.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Almost Ideal Demand System; Alcohol; Beer; Brewing industry; Consumption; The Czech Republic; Elasticity; Price; Spirits; Tax; Wine.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Health Economics and Policy; Public Economics; D12; L66; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61464

Public Policy and Diet Quality: Impact of Prices on Nutrient Adequacy using French Expenditure Data from 1996 to 2005
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Allen,   Thomas G.; Allais,   Olivier; Nichele,   Veronique; Padilla,   Martine.
This paper aims at simulating optimal prices satisfying public health recommendations in terms of nutrient adequacy. This implies to estimate a complete food demand system in order to compute price elasticities. Food consumption behaviors are described by an AI functional form [Deaton and Muellbauer(1980)] augmented to control for habit persistence. The demand system is estimated using the Iterated Least Square Estimator developed by Blundell and Robin (1999). We use French household expenditure data drawn from TNS Worldpanel covering 130 periods of 4 weeks from 1996 to 2005. Given the nature of our data, households are split into 8 cohorts based on two socio-demographic variables: date of birth and social status. A revised aggregation into 27 food groups...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Household survey data; Cohort; AI demand system; Nutrient adequacy; Diet quality; Fat tax policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D12; C33.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53335

The Impact of Food Environment on Branded vs. Private Label Produce Choice
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Schroeter,   Christiane; Cai,   Xiaowei.
Over the past two decades, U.S. food retailers are providing more organic private label foods (PLs) which are directly competing with the National Brand (NB) products. From a policy perspective, an increased availability of high-quality PL products might provide consumers with a more affordable way to cover their produce consumption. Using a two-step Heckman selection model, we estimate the impact of purchase information, demographics, and food environment on the purchasing likelihood and expenditure shares of PL organic vs. conventional spinach. Results show that food context, most notably food availability, access, and adult obesity rate, significantly influences organic PL spinach choice.
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Brand Loyalty; Quality; Private label; Food Environment; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; I18; D12; R23.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123197

Does Where You Live Make You Fat? Obesity and Access to Chain Grocers
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chen,   Susan E.; Florax,   Raymond J.G.M.; Snyder,   Samantha D.
This paper investigates the role that aspects of the physical environment play in determining health outcomes in adults as measured by body mass index (BMI).  Using spatial econometric techniques that allow for spatial spillovers and feedback processes, this research specifically examines how differing levels of access to large chain grocers has on individual health outcomes.  While other studies have investigated the impact of proximity to food retailers, the point-coordinate data used in this paper is uniquely suited to spatial econometric estimation at the individual level.  In addition to modeling spatial dependence and allowing for unobserved neighborhood effects, the flexibility of the model is increased by incorporating potential spatial...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Body mass index; Obesity; Spatial dependence; Obesogenic environments; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C31; D12; I12; I18.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53838

Atmospheric Pollution and Consumption Patterns in Spain: An Input-Output Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Serrano,   Monica; Roca,   Jordi.
This paper analyses the relationship between Spanish household consumption patterns and atmospheric pollutant emissions in 2000. Applying an input-output approach we estimate the relative responsibility of different types of households in the emissions of nine different atmospheric pollutants: the six greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6, HFCs and PFCs) regulated by the Kyoto protocol and three other gases (SO2, NOx and NH3). We combine input-output tables, national consumer survey statistics and environmental pollution satellite accounts into an environmental extended input-output model. We also analyse the assumptions required in order to apply the model to available data. We find that there is a positive and very high relationship between the level of...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Input-Output Analysis; Consumption Pattern; Atmospheric Pollution; Environmental Economics and Policy; C67; D12; Q53.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9090

Consumer Awareness of and Preferences for Bio-active Lipid Enhanced Beef
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cash,   Sean B.; Kingston-Riechers,   JoAnn; Peng,   Yanning; McCann-Hiltz,   Diane; Ding,   Yulian; Beaunom,   Wendy.
This study investigates consumer attitudes toward functional foods in the context of CLA-enhanced beef products. The objectives of this study were to identify the following issues: 1) consumer awareness and attitudes towards nutrition, functional foods, and other emerging factors; 2) consumers´ major health concerns; 3) consumers´ beef consumption patterns; 4) the importance of health information and food labeling in affecting consumer purchasing decisions; 5) consumer attitudes, acceptance, and willingness to pay for CLA-enriched beef products; 6) and consumers´ demographic information. “Choice experiment” survey design methodology was used to collect the data. Choice experiments have become an important and recognized tool in marketing and non-market...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Consumer behavior; Demand for novel food; Functional foods; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries; D12; I12; Q11.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52089

Using a Modified Payment Card Survey on Chinese Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Fair Trade Coffee: Would the Starting Point Matter
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Yang,   Shang-Ho; Hu,   Wuyang.
Coffee consumption in China is increasing rapidly over the recent years. This study offers one of the few initial attempts to not only understand general consumption behavior associated with Chinese coffee, but to explore the viability of niche markets for coffee with the credence attribute “fair trade”. A modified payment card approach was adopted as the consumer willingness to pay elicitation method. Survey results of 564 consumers from the city of Wuhan, China suggest a positive attitude toward coffee as an alternative drink and a willingness to pay a premium for “fair trade” coffee. This study also explores and describes the potential impact of starting point bias, which has been relatively well documented in the dichotomous choice literature but has...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Coffee; Fair trade; Payment card; Starting point bias; Willingness to pay; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103720

Context-Dependent BSE Impacts on Canadian Food-at-Home Beef Purchases
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Maynard,   Leigh J.; Wang,   Xin.
Household-level Canadian scanner data from 2002 – 2005 were used to identify consumer reactions to the early BSE discoveries that severely impacted Canada’s beef industry.  In all provinces, consumers reacted to the initial BSE event by purchasing more beef, apparently to support struggling ranchers.  Subsequent BSE events, however, met with reduced beef purchases.  The results were consistent across three measures of monthly beef purchases: participation, units purchased, and beef expenditure share.  Failing to account for the context of individual BSE events would have produced little evidence of consumer reaction, a common finding among prior North American BSE studies.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: BSE; Mad cow disease; Food safety; Consumer behavior; Canada; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; Q11.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48431

Consumers’ Valuation of GMO Segregation Programs in Japan
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Matsumoto,   Shigeru.
The contingent valuation method was used to elicit Japanese consumers’ willingness-to-pay for genetically modified organism (GMO) segregation programs.  The results revealed that most consumers pay nonnegligible premiums for products produced under strict GMO-segregation programs.  However, we found that the premium did not vary by the threshold level of GMO content in the product.  We further found that a government certification did not increase the premium for GMO-segregation programs.  Therefore, an additional mandatory regulation to reduce GMO contaminations would not be worthwhile because such a regulation would incur substantial enforcement costs.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Contingent valuation method; Genetically modified organism segregation; Willingness-to-pay; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Marketing; D12; M31; Q13; Q18.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43760

Public Response to Large-Scale Produce Contamination
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cuite,   Cara L.; Hallman,   William K.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; D01; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94708

Characteristics of Organic Food Shoppers
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zepeda,   Lydia; Li,   Jinghan.
Data from a national survey of food shoppers are analyzed by probit and ordered probit models that incorporate elements of Lancaster's product attribute model and Weinstein's precaution adoption process. The models are used to investigate the characteristics of organic and non-organic food shoppers. Where one shops, food beliefs and food knowledge have the largest significant impact on the probability that shoppers buy organic food. Among the demographic characteristics, only the lack of religious affiliation, higher education, and youth are significant explanatory variables.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Consumer decision making; Consumer profiles; Organic food; Product attributes; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C25; D12; M31.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6624

Buyer and Seller Response to an Adverse Food Safety Event: The Case of Frozen Salmon in Alberta
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Maynard,   Leigh J.; Saghaian,   Sayed H.; Nickoloff,   Megan.
Fish is a low-fat protein source high in omega-3 fatty acids, but in 2004 consumers also heard that farmed salmon had high levels of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs). This research evaluated how Canadian consumers and processors reacted to the conflicting health messages. Demand estimates and time-series analysis of 2001-2006 frozen meat scanner data in Alberta, Canada show a significant drop in salmon expenditure share following the PCB finding. The industry responded by launching low-priced wild salmon products, which contributed to significant demand expansion. The analysis illustrates how a food safety threat was averted and even served as a catalyst for growth.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Salmon; Scanner data; Food Safety; Demand; Directed acyclic graphs; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; L15; Q11.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6832

Canadian Consumers' Preferences for Food Safety and Agricultural Environment Safety
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Veeman,   Michele M.; Li,   Yu.
This project applies statistical models to analyse the relative importance ratings for selected food risk issues given in January 2003 by a representative cross-Canada sample of consumers. Ratings for environmental risks that may be associated with agriculture are also assessed. Results of ordered probit econometric models that analyze the influence of respondent's socio-economic and demographic characteristics on food and environmental risk ratings indicate that these are influenced by gender, age, income, employment and location of residence. Males tended to choose lower risk ratings; residents of Quebec tended to give higher risk ratings to most of the queried food and environmental safety issues. The results suggest that measures of trust in...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food safety; Environmental risks; Risk perceptions; Quantitative assessment; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C12; D12; I19; Q18.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91557

Effects of Traceability on the Italian Fresh Vegetables Market: A Demand System Simulation
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Caracciolo,   Francesco; Cembalo,   Luigi.
Traceability can serve various purposes in the food sector, including that of chain quality control. However, the aspects that seem to be most frequently required of traceability are those related to food safety. Nevertheless, traceability systems development has recently shifted its focus from the major aspects of food safety to a price premium search approach. Although such an approach often appears to lie behind production strategies, there is no technical or theoretical evidence to support it: traceability systems do not guarantee, per se, quality. On the other hand, a rigorous traceability system that pursues multiple objectives involves costly procedures that are very likely to feed all the way up to the consumer side. The mainstream literature is...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Traceability; Early potato; Censored demand system estimation; Sample selection approach; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Production Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; C31; C34.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100503

Monte Carlo Benchmarks for Discrete Response Valuation Methods
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Huang,   Ju-Chin; Smith,   V. Kerry.
This paper argues that the widespread belief that discrete contingent valuation (CV) questions yield substantially larger estimates of the mean (and the median) willingness to pay (WTP) for nonmarket environmental resources in comparison to estimates from open-ended CV questions is unfounded. A set of Monte Carlo experiments estimate the factors influencing the performance of WTP estimates based on discrete response models. Most of the error in the WTP estimates arises from the specification errors that are common in most of the empirical models used in the literature. These experiments suggest models based on choices where WTP is dominated by non use (or passive use) values are likely to have smaller errors than where large use values influence these...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Discrete response contingent valuation; Monte Carlo; Non-market valuation; Financial Economics; C93; D12; Q2.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10546

FAT TAX: A POLITICAL MEASURE TO REDUCE OVERWEIGHT? THE CASE OF GERMANY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Thiele,   Silke.
Using an Almost Ideal Demand System food price elasticities for German households are calculated. These elasticities serve as a basis to simulate the effect of the substitutions of different food types due to a tax on saturated fat. The change of food structure causes effects on the energy and nutrient supply of individuals as well as, on consumer welfare. These effects are analyzed for different German household groups. It is found that decreases in energy and fat intake are small but potentially effective especially for low-income households. However, due to the collateral decrease of nutrients which Germans have deficient supply of, the total health effects of a fat tax remain unclear. Furthermore the results show that low-income groups would bear...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Fat tax; Foods; Nutrients; Welfare effects; Almost Ideal Demand System; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12; Q18; P46; I12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116393

Unstable Individual Bids and Stable Market Demand
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Alfnes,   Frode; Rickertsen,   Kyrre; Shogren,   Jason F.
We explore preference stability at the individual and market level. We examine individual bidding behavior among 116 French consumers who participated in experimental auctions conducted seven months apart for five types of fish. We reject preference stability at the individual level, but not at the aggregate market level.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Aggregation; Consumer preferences; Demand; Experimental auctions; Food choice; Marketing; C91; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114219

Agricultural Price Seasonality and Market Failure: Examining the Net Seller Household and the Net Benefit Ratio Definition
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Vergez,   Antonin.
On the basis of a household typology distinguishing between net sellers, net buyers and self sufficient, the Net Benefit Ratio (NBR), defined by Deaton (1989), is used to approximate households' first order welfare variations when price change. In this paper, we discuss both the typology's criteria and the classic formula of NBR, since they are based a) on produced and consumed quantities rather than real marketed volumes and b) on a unique selling and buying price for all surveyed households. We propose another definition of a net seller and a new NBR expression allowing the analyst to take into account market failures (MF) and price seasonality (PS), which are two constancies in developing countries. We use two sets of data (from Mexico and Mali), to...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Household welfare; Food crop; Net buyer; Net seller; Net benefit ratio; Price seasonality; Survey; Consumer/Household Economics; Marketing; D12; C14; Q12; D31; Q17; Q18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7911

The effect of information on consumer choice (the case of product with new properties)
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fetisova,   Yulia.
In the modern world very concentrated informational environment forms consumer preferences well before a potential buyer goes to the shop to make purchases. The production of new commodities triggers economic agents’ demand for objective information necessary for taking decisions about their safety or further use. This study uses economic experiment to investigate the effect of information about the product with new properties on behavior of the Russian consumers and proves that new information can alter individual perceptions and evoke response. It turns out that women are more receptive to any information concerning food products. The results also emphasize discrepancy between actual participants’ behavior and their initial estimates made in...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Economic experiment; Effect of information; Product with new properties; Consumer behavior; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51364

Distribution Dynamics of Dietary Energy Supply in the World
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fousekis,   Panos; Lazaridis,   Panagiotis.
This paper investigates the law of motion for the cross-section distribution of dietary energy supply (DES) in the world. This has been pursued using the distribution approach and a panel of 152 countries for the period 1961-2001. According to the empirical results, persistence in caloric intakes dominates in the short-run. With time, however, upwards mobility gains momentum and the world is moving towards a long-run distribution, which is strongly skewed to the left. The estimated expected first passage times from extreme under-supply to higher intake levels are consistent with speculations that most of the developing countries will attain the 3000 kcal per person per day level by the year 2030.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Caloric intakes; Mobility; World; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C10; D12.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44097

Point-of-Sale Nutrition Information and the Demand for Ready-to-Eat Cereals
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lin,   Chung-Tung Jordan; Gao,   Zhifeng; Lee,   Jonq-Ying.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Nutrition information; Food demand; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103167

Consumer preferences as drivers of the common bean trade in Tanzania: A marketing perspective
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mishili,   Fulgence J.; Temu,   Anna A.; Fulton,   Joan R.; Lowenberg-DeBoer,   James.
The objective of this study was to determine the impact of bean grain quality characteristics on market price. The data was collected from retail markets in Tanzania. Hedonic pricing provides a statistical estimate of premiums and discounts. Implications for development of bean markets include: i) extension agents should identify cost-effective ways to educate producers on targeting urban market niches based on consumer preferences for varieties, ii) breeding for bruchid resistant beans and use of appropriate storage technologies would alleviate the problems of storage damage, and iii) requiring a portfolio of grain quality characteristics to fit consumer preferences in local markets.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Beans; Markets; Consumer preferences; Hedonic; Storage; Tanzania; Marketing; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48658

Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Subsidizing Milk: Beverage Consumption, Nutrition, and Obesity among US Children
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lin,   Biing-Hwan; Smith,   Travis A.; Lee,   Jonq-Ying.
Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been proposed as a means to improve U.S. diet and health and generate revenue to address obesity-related issues. A related concern is that children’s intake of SSBs, a third that of milk consumption in the late 1970s, now equals milk consumption. Displacing milk by SSBs may shortchange the buildup of bone mass, increasing the risk of fractures and osteoporosis in later life. Accordingly, we examine the effects that a 20- percent SSB tax and a 20-percent milk price subsidy would have on the diet and health of American children. We estimated US beverage demand systems and used the estimated demand elasticities to examine the impacts of the hypothetical SSB tax and milk subsidy. Our results suggest that a 20-percent...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB); Soda tax; Milk subsidy; Beverage demand; And obesity; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; C30; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116448

A MODEL OF HOUSEHOLD TYPE SPECIFIC FOOD DEMAND BEHAVIOUR IN HUNGARY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brosig,   Stephan.
The paper describes a two stage model of Hungarian households'’ food demand. Demand for the food aggregate is represented by a Working-Leser type single equation model while demand for seven distinct food types is modelled in a complete demand system using the LA/AIDS functional form. Estimation is based on household budget survey data for 1996. Demand elasticities are estimated for average households as well as for specific groups defined by sociodemographic characteristics. Fruit and vegetables are found to be the food types with most elastic demand but in general, differences between elasticities for different products as well as between different sociodemographic groups are relatively small.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food demand; Demand modelling; Hungary; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; C31; C51.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14864

Determinants of Malaysian Household Expenditures on Food-Away-From-Home
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lee,   Helen; Tan,   Andrew K.G.
The censored Tobit model is applied on data from the Malaysian Household Expenditure Survey (1998/99) to identify socio-demographic determinants of household expenditures on food-away-from-home (FAFH). Results indicate that Chinese, urban residents, and those with higher monthly household income spend significantly more on FAFH expenditures than their non-Chinese, rural, and lower household income cohorts, ceteris paribus. Other results obtained suggest that age of household head, gender, education level and household size do not significantly affect household expenditures on FAFH. Based on the above findings, several observations are noted. First, the current range of menus being served can be further diversified in order to attract those with religious...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Censored demand; Household-expenditures; Food-away-from-home; Malaysia; Socio-demographics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; L66; C24; D12.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25430

Obesity in Urban Food Markets: Evidence from Geo-referenced Micro Data
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chen,   Susan E.; Florax,   Raymond J.G.M.; Snyder,   Samantha D.
This paper provides quantitative estimates of the effect of proximity to fast food restaurants and grocery stores on obesity in urban food markets. Our empirical model combined georeferenced micro data on access to fast food restaurants and grocery stores with data about salient personal characteristics, individual behaviors, and neighborhood characteristics. We defined a "local food environment" for every individual utilizing 0.5-mile buffers around a person's home address. Local food landscapes are potentially endogenous due to spatial sorting of the population and food outlets, and the body mass index (BMI) values for individuals living close to each other are likely to be spatially correlated because of observed and unobserved individual and...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Obesity; Fast food; Grocery store; Spatial econometrics; Micro data; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Public Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; C31; D12; I12; I18.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49512

How Fast Do Urban Migrants Change Their Diets?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gibson,   John.
Rapid urbanization is a major cause of structural change in food demand. In West Africa, urbanization is associated with a switch from coarse grains to rice and wheat, in Melanesia the switch is from root crops to rice and wheat, while in much of Asia the switch is away from cereals (and within cereals to wheat). Although reasons why urban diets differ from traditional rural diets are well known, the rate at which recent arrivals from the countryside switch their diet has not been estimated. Evidence on the speed of this dietary change can help to show whether studies of urban food demand need to control for cohort effects and may also help producers forecast the size of their future urban markets. This paper uses cross-sectional household survey data from...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food demand; Migration; Urbanization; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; O15.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123806

Geographical Heterogeneity in Homeownership Rates: Does the Differential between Rent and Ownership Cost Explain Local Variation in Homeownership Rates?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Tsukamoto,   Satoshi.
This paper focuses on differentials between rental and owner costs as a primary determinant of local homeownership. In simultaneous equations to estimate the separate effects of owner cost and rent on homeownership rates, the control variables are various household and geographical factors (Census 2000 tract level dataset), in the samples of 48 contiguous states within the United States. The results show negative effects of rental and owner costs on homeownership rates. Ethnicity, income, age, property tax rate and loan usage rates, contribute to increased owner costs. Several factors had significant association with the rise in housing prices before 2006.
Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Public Economics; D12; H0; R2.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91269

Effects of Impulsivity and Self-control on Calorie Intake
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Asirvatham,   Jebaraj; McNamara,   Paul E.
Neoclassical economic theory models individuals as making consistent choices over time and it assumes these choices are the outcome of rational utility maximization. Recent theoretical developments in the theory of consumer decision-making have drawn evidence from other disciplines such as, neuroscience (McClure et al, 2004) and psychology, and proposed more generalized models in a dual-self framework explicitly accounting for self-control or impulsivity (Gul and Pesendorfer, 2004; Fudenberg and Levine, 2006; and Brocas and Carillo, 2008). This study attempts to understand the dietary choices in a dual-self framework while explicitly identifying calorie intake owing to impulsivity and self-control. We construct standard psychological measures using the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Self-control; Nutrition; Diet; Health; Impulsivity; BMI; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; D12; D03; I00.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49472

ECONOMIC INCENTIVES FOR DIETARY IMPROVEMENT AMONG FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lin,   Biing-Hwan; Yen,   Steven T.; Dong,   Diansheng; Smallwood,   David M.
Most Americans need to consume more fruits, vegetables, and dairy products. This need is particularly acute among low-income individuals. The objective of this study is to examine the cost effectiveness of two economic policies that use alternative policy levers available within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly Food Stamp Program) to increase consumption of these under-consumed foods. Data from three nationally representative surveys are used to estimate demand elasticities, marginal propensity to spend on food out of food stamp benefits, and consumption amount of and spending on under-consumed foods among food stamp recipients. Results of the analyses suggest that a 10% price subsidy would curtail consumption deficiencies by 4–7% at...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: CEX; SNAP; Price subsidy; NHANES; NFSPS; Vegetables; Milk; Fruits; Food stamps; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; C34; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53339

Is Chocolate Milk the New-Age Energy\Sports Drink in the United States?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dharmasena,   Senarath; Capps,   Oral, Jr.
Data from U.S. households for calendar year 2008 were used in examining demographic and economic factors affecting demand for chocolate milk using Heckman two-step procedure. Price, income, age, education, region, race, Hispanic status, and presence of children were significant drivers of consumption of chocolate milk. Sample selection bias was statistically significant.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Chocolate milk; Nielsen HomeScan data; Heckman two-step; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; D11; D12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98742

Reducing Obesity: What Americans Can Learn from the Japanese
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Senauer,   Benjamin; Gemma,   Masahiko.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; D12; I11.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94365

Consumer Acceptance of Traffic-light Labelling on Food vs. Financial Products
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Drescher,   Larissa S.; Marette,   Stephan; Roosen,   Jutta.
Paper removed at the request of the primary author, October 2013.  Please contact them for further information.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Traffic-light labelling; Consumer acceptance; Food; Financial products; Germany; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D03; D12; D14; D81.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114431

HOW LARGE ARE NON-BUDGET-CONSTRAINT EFFECTS OF PRICES ON DEMAND?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Heffetz,   Ori; Shayo,   Moses.
Elementary consumer theory assumes that prices affect demand only because they affect the budget constraint (BC). By contrast, several models suggest that prices can affect demand through other channels (e.g. because they signal quality). This alternative conjecture is consistent with evidence from marketing studies. However, neither theory nor evidence is informative regarding the magnitude of non-BC effects. The key econometric challenge arises from the fact that a change in prices typically also changes the BC. This paper uses a lab and a field experiment to disentangle BC from non-BC effects of prices on demand. In our lab experiment we find that, consistent with marketing evidence, prices positively affect stated willingness to pay. However, when...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer behavior; Demand; Price; Quality signals; Experiments; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; D01; D12; D8; M31.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53882

Consumer Cohorts and Demand Systems
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gustavsen,   Geir Waehler; Rickertsen,   Kyrre.
The Norwegian purchases pattern of non-alcoholic beverages has changed substantially. The observed changes cannot be fully explained by changes in relative prices and income, and other variables are likely to be important. Cohort variables have not been given much attention in demand analysis. Our main contribution is to include age, period, and cohort (APC) variables into a demand system. The system is applied to purchases of non-alcoholic beverages. Wald tests show the importance of including APC variables. A Monte-Carlo analysis shows how replacing the APC variables with an age and a trend variable results in misleading age effects on milk purchases.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Cohort effects; Demand system; Milk; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; J10; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51566

Effects of food prices and consumer income on nutrient availability: An application of the demand for dairy products in Tunisia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dhehibi,   Boubaker; Laajimi,   Abderraouf.
Number of Tunisian food demand studies have measured the influence of traditional variables, such as income and prices, and in some cases some socio-demographic variables. However, given increasing concerns about health, other important factors, such as the nutritious quality and the nutrient content of food, have also been shown to determine consumer choices. This paper analyses the effect of these factors on the demand for dairy products. The nutritious quality of dairy products is measured by an index that relates nutrient content of each product with the standards suggested by the National Academy of Science. A demand system is estimated and nutrient demand elasticities with respect to prices and expenditure are obtained. Results differ from...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Dairy products demand; Health awareness; Nutrients; Price/quality index; Tunisia; Agricultural and Food Policy; D12; I12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57279

Measuring Consumer Willingness to Pay for a Health Risk Reduction of Salmonellosis and Campylobacteriosis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Goldberg,   Isabell; Roosen,   Jutta.
This paper presents an application of the contingent valuation method (CVM) and choice experiments (CEs). We examine consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for different health risk reduction levels of Salmonellosis and Campylobacteriosis acquired from the consumption of chicken breast. We test for the embedding effect. The embedding effect was not found in the CVM format. It was however present in the CEs. The WTP values in the CVM format rages from Euro 1.29 to 3.34, whereas the WTP obtained by the CEs ranges from Euro -0.16 to Euro 6.68 depending on the disease and the corresponding risk reduction levels.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Chicken; Choice experiments; Contingent valuation method; Food safety; Willingness to pay; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C9; D8; D12.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24512

Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-sensitive Analysis of Household-level Impacts
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: D'Souza,   Anna; Jolliffe,   Dean.
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/29/11.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Afghanistan; Food prices; Wheat; Food security; Nutrition; Poverty; Quantile regression; Influence functions; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; D12; I3.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103443

Obesity and Hyperbolic Discounting: An Experimental Analysis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Richards,   Timothy J.; Hamilton,   Stephen F.; Pofahl,   Geoffrey M.
Behavioral economists maintain that addictions such as alcoholism, smoking and over-eating represent examples of present-bias in decision making that is fundamentally irrational.  In this article, we develop a model of present bias and apparently hyperbolic discounting that is fully consistent with rational behavior.  We construct an experiment to test our hypothesis and to determine whether discount rates differ for individuals who engage in behaviors that could endanger their health.  Our results show that discount functions are quasi-hyperbolic in shape, and that obesity and drinking are positively related to the discount rate.  Anti-obesity policy, therefore, would be best directed to informing individuals as to the long-term implications of short-term...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Addiction; Discounting; Experiments; Hyperbolic; Obesity; Time-inconsistency.; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; C91; D12; D91; I18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61186

What Affects Consumption Patterns of Organic and Conventional Products?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Grebitus,   Carola; Yue,   Chengyan; Bruhn,   Maike; Jensen,   Helen H.
Consumers show an increased interest in organic food today and a willingness to pay premium for organic products. In addition to price, changing attitudes and beliefs about food quality affect food choice. This article analyses the impact of attitudes, quality characteristics and socio-demographics on consumption of organic and conventional pork, potatoes and milk. The concept of ‘perceived quality’ provides the theoretical background. The data come from a consumer survey conducted in Germany in 2004 (n=260). An ordered logit model was used for analysing the data. We observe clear differences in consumers’ use of certain quality characteristics as they perceive and evaluate conventional and organic fresh foods.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Perceived quality; Consumption patterns; Fresh food; Organic; Ordered logit model; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; Q13; M3.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9819

Confirmatory Bias under Food-Borne Risk: A Lab Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cao,   Ying; Just,   David R.; Wansink,   Brian.
An experiment was conducted to investigate the interaction between consumers’ past eating behaviors, risk perceptions and future information processing procedure. In the study, participants were required to choose whether or not to eat chicken that was potentially be tainted with Avian Influenza (AI). Results showed that people decreased the consumption when facing ambiguous signals regarding the food quality, but would not cease to eat altogether. Due to a taste of consistency, participants updated their risk perceptions and judgments based on their eating behaviors. The more chicken individuals ate the more favorably they tended to rate the food, suggesting confirmatory bias. Even though consumers with previous experience could pick up signals faster,...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Cognitive Dissonance; Confirmation Bias; Self-compliance; Justification; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Marketing; Risk and Uncertainty; D03; D12; D83; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61312

Unstable Individual Preferences and Stable Aggregate Demand: French Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Farmed and Wild Cod
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Alfnes,   Frode; Rickertsen,   Kyrre.
We use panel data from two experiments conducted five months a part to investigate the stability of individual preferences and aggregate demand for five types of fish. Even though the bids in the two experiments are positively correlated, they clearly suggest that the individual preferences are unstable. This may be explained by internal desire for variety or by external effects such as new relevant information, seasonality in preferences, changes in the quality of the fish, and changes in the market price of fish. However, the aggregate demand curves of the participants are stable when we control for changes in the perceived quality of the fish and price expectations of the participants. In other words, the stability is generated by aggregation rather...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Aggregation; Consumer preferences; Demand; Experimental markets; Food choices; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; C91; D12; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49968

An Improved Method for Calibrating Purchase Intentions in Stated Preference Demand Models
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Davies,   Stephen P.; Loomis,   John B.
The Orbit demand model allows the magnitude of the calibration to stated purchase intentions to vary based on the magnitude of the stated quantities. Using an empirical example of stated trips, we find that the extent of calibration varies substantially with less correction needed at small stated trips (–25%) but larger corrections at higher quantities of stated visits (–48%). We extend the Orbit model to calculate consumer surplus per stated trip of $26. Combining the calibrations in stated trips and value per trip, the Orbit model provides estimates of annual benefits from 60% to 111% less than the count data model.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Hypothetical bias; Orbit; Ordered probit model; Travel cost model; Recreation; Stated preference; Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Financial Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Marketing; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; D12; H44; Q26; Q51.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100521

Heat or Eat?: An empirical analysis of U.K. cold weather income support
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Beatty,   Timothy K.M.; Blow,   Laura; Crossley,   Thomas.
Paper removed by author 10/14/10.  An updated version will be posted soon.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Deprivation; Food Expenditure; Heat or Eat; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; D12; Q18.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51903

Turning on the Lights: A Meta-Analysis of Residential Electricity Demand Elasticities
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Espey,   James A.; Espey,   Molly.
Meta-analysis us used to quantitatively summarize previous studies of residential electricity demand to determine if there are factors that systematically affect estimated elasticities. In this study, price and income elasticities of residential demand for electricity from previous studies are used as the dependent variables, with data characteristics, model structure, and estimation technique as independent variables, using both least square estimation of a semilog and maximum likelihood estimation of a gamma model. The findings of this research can help better inform public policy makers, regulators, and utilities about the responsiveness of residential electricity consumers to price and income changes.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Electricity demand; Income elasticity; Meta-analysis; Price elasticity; Residential electricity demand; Q40; Q41; D12.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42897

NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF  ATTITUDES TOWARD RISKY CROPS: A PLANT MOLECULAR FARMING CASE STUDY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Veeman,   Michele M.; Volinskiy,   Dmitriy; Adamowicz,   Wiktor L.
Research on plant molecular farming (PMF) is supported by public and private sectors in Canada. This may lead to benefits of new or cheaper medicines, industrial products and foods, but also be the source of appreciable risks to food safety from contamination by PMF materials, as well as potential environmental risks and costs. This study uses data from a 2005 nation-wide Canadian survey to gain insights into citizens’ perceptions of PMF benefits and risks. A series of nonparametric tests are conducted on ordinal survey data on risk and benefit assessments of respondents.  PMF is not seen as a major threat to food safety or the environment, but as a moderate indirect risk. The use of PMF to produce better and cheaper medical drugs appears to have the best...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Plant molecular farming; Plant genetic engineering; Nonparametric statistics; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; C14; D12; O32.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51652

Consumer Demand for Ahi Poke (Raw Tuna Salad) in Hawaii
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fernandes da Costa,   Pedro M.; Hu,   Wuyang; Pan,   Minling.
Ahi poke (raw tuna salad) has significant role in Hawaii culture and economy.  A consumer survey in Hawaii was used to examine consumers’ purchasing intentions of ahi poke.  A censored analysis was conducted to analyze the demand and tie with various consumer characteristics.  Results show that many consumer eat ahi poke frequently and different consumer profiles will lead to large differences in their demand.  Information obtained in study may help producers and retailers to better target their marketing strategies and increase sales.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Ahi Poke; Demand; Hawaii; Tobit; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing; Q13; D12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56346

IMPACT OF FOOD CONTAMINATION ON BRANDS: A DEMAND SYSTEMS ESTIMATION OF PEANUT BUTTER
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bakhtavoryan,   Rafael; Capps,   Oral, Jr.; Salin,   Victoria.
A 2007 foodborne illness incident involving peanut butter is linked with structural change in consumer demand. Compensated and uncompensated own- and cross-price elasticities and expenditure elasticities were calculated for leading brands before and after the product recall using the Barten synthetic model and weekly time-series data from 2006 through 2008. Statistically significant differences in price elasticities for the affected brand, Peter Pan, were absent. After a period of 27 weeks, this brand essentially recovered from the food safety crisis. Significant differences in price elasticities were evident among non-affected brands. Hence, spillover effects and heightened competition are associated with the recall.
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food safety; 2007 Peter Pan recall; Demand system models; Scanner data.; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123755

PROJECTING WORLD FOOD DEMAND USING ALTERNATIVE DEMAND SYSTEMS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Yu,   Wusheng; Hertel,   Thomas W.; Preckel,   Paul V.; Eales,   James S.
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models are increasingly being used to project world food markets in order to support forward-looking policy analysis.  Such projections hinge critically on the underlying functional form for representing consumer demand.  Simple functional forms can lead to unrealistic projections by failing to capture changes in income elasticities of demand.  We adopt as our benchmark the recently introduced AIDADS demand system and compare it with several alternaive demand systems currently in widespread use in CGE models.  This comparison is conducted in the context of projections for disaggregated global food demand using a global CGE model.  We find that AIDADS represents a substantial improvement, particularly for the rapidly...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food demand; Agricultural trade; Functional form; Demand system; CGE modeling; Demand and Price Analysis; D12; C68; F17; Q18.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25905

Bidding for WIC infant formula contracts: Do non-WIC customers subsidize WIC customers?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Davis,   David E.
Although the WIC food assistance program purchases over one-half of all US infant formula, I find the program has little impact on the prices paid by non-WIC customers. I estimate infant-formula marginal cost and find that it is low compared to price, implying large price-cost markups. But, the WIC program is not to blame. Instead large price-cost markups are likely due to customer’s price insensitivity. WIC’s impact on non-WIC customers comes through an increase in sales owing to a WIC “spill-over” effect. The WIC approved brand attains a prominence in the market that makes it a natural choice for non-WIC customers, which makes attaining WIC approval valuable to firms. Firms bid with rebates to attain exclusive WIC approved status which results in...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Price cost margins; WIC; Oligopoly; Food Assistance; Infant Formula; Auctions; Contracts; Consumer/Household Economics; Health Economics and Policy; Industrial Organization; L11; L113; I18; D12.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/102457