Rheinberger, Christoph M.; Hammitt, James K. - In: Journal of Health Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 113-122
Assessing the welfare impact of consumer health advisories is a thorny task. Recently, Shimshack and Ward (2010) studied how U.S. households responded to FDA's 2001 mercury-in-fish advisory. They found that the average at-risk household reduced fish consumption by 21%, resulting in a...