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Taxing Sweets: Sweetener Input Tax or Final Consumption Tax?

Miao, Zhen; Beghin, John C.; Jensen, Helen H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

In order to reduce obesity and associated costs, policymakers are considering various policies, including taxes, to change consumers’ high-calorie consumption habits. We investigate two sweet tax policies aimed at reducing added sweetener consumption. Both a consumption tax on sweet goods and...

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ARE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE STAMP POLICIES COST-EFFECTIVE?

de Mouzon, Olivier; Requillart, Vincent; Soler, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

health effects of F&V stamp policy designed for low income consumers. The analysis combined two models: an economic model … which predicts how F&V consumption is affected by a change in policy and a health model which evaluates the impact of a … targeted population, (2) at the aggregate level, this policy has a modest impact on consumption and as a result on health gains …

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Transcending the Limitations of Environmental Economic Framing: Toward a Metaeconomics of Environmental Choice

Czap, Natalia V.; Czap, Hans J.; Khachaturyan, Marianna; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

This paper further tests dual interest theory and the metaeconomics approach to environmental choice, recognizing a possible role for empathy-sympathy (the basis for an internalized, shared other-interest) in tempering and conditioning the more fundamental tendency to pursue self-interest. To...

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Implications of Neuroscience Developments in Understanding Human Behavior for Teaching Agricultural Economics/Agribusiness

Schurle, Bryan W.; Bruce, Amanda S.; Bruce, Jared M.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

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

Knutson, Ronald D.; Currier, Russell W.; Ribera, Luis A.; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantial disease-inducing health risks …

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Can Food Stamp Policies Encourage Healthy Eating? An Experiment on Food Stamp Restrictions

Weaver, Amanda S.; Lusk, Jayson L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

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When Higher Quality Does Not Translate to Higher Prices: A Case of Quality and Specialty Coffees from the Cup of Excellence Auctions

Wilson, Norbert - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

This study investigates the Cup of Excellence coffee auctions and explains with behavioral economics observed intransitives in choice sets. Buyers are selecting lower quality coffees and paying higher prices for these coffees because they receive a higher rank. The estimates suggest that the...

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When Higher Quality Does Not Translate to Higher Prices: A Case of Quality and Specialty Coffees from the Cup of Excellence Auctions

Wilsoon, Norbert - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

This paper is a revised version of the earlier submitted paper.

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Do Environmental Interventions Impact Elementary School Students’ Lunchtime Milk Selection?

Waite, Alexandra; Goto, Keiko; Chan, Kenny; Giovanni, Maria - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

This research examines whether environmentally based intervention strategies increase elementary students’ selection of white milk. At intervention school one, white milk was easily accessible, but students had to ask for chocolate milk. As an outcome, students increased their selection of...

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Heterogeneous Responses to Social Norms for Water Conservation

Brent, Daniel A.; Cook, Joseph H.; Olsen, Skylar - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Utilizing social norms is gaining momentum as a cost-eective mechanism to pro- mote sustainable behavior. We analyze household water data from multiple pilot programs for a company that provides information campaigns containing social comparisons of water use and per- sonalized conservation...

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