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Public Acceptance of and Willingness to Pay for Nanofood: Case of Canola Oil
Zhou, Guzhen; Hu, Wuyang; Schieffer, Jack; Robbins, Lynn - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Nanotechnology has tremendous potential in food and agriculture. Few economic studies focused on specific products made using nanotechnology, let alone food or food related products. Using a national choice experiment survey, this analysis examines consumers’ valuations for nano-attributes. As...
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Dietary Diversity in Urban and Rural China: An Endogenous Variety Approach
Liu, Jing; Shively, Gerald; Binkley, James - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
In the canonical consumer demand problem, an agent makes a decision about quantities to consume, under the assumption that all possible varieties are available and can be accessed at zero cost. Quantities of each budget item are adjusted to achieve maximum utility subject to the budget...
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Lessons from the California GM Labeling Proposition on the State of Crop Biotechnology
Zilberman, David; Kaplan, Scott; Kim, Eunice; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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Two Asymmetric and Conflicting Learning Effects of Calorie Posting on Overeating: Laboratory Snack Choice Experiment
Shimokawa, Satoru - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
We develop a new framework to analyze the effect of calorie posting on overconsumption of calories in a fixed-price context (e.g., fixed-price buffets). The framework demonstrates that a desire to get `a good deal’ (transaction utility) and loss aversion can induce asymmetry between two...
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Optimal Generic Advertising under Bilateral Imperfect Competition between Processors and Retailers
Chung, Chanjin; Eom, Young Sook; Yang, Byung Woo; Han, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of bilateral imperfect competition between processors and retailers and of import supply on optimal advertising intensity, advertising expenditures, and checkoff assessment rates. First, comparative static analyses were conducted on the newly...
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Agriculture Development Lowers the Risk of Cognitive Disability: Evidence from China's Rural Household Responsibility System Reform
Niu, Mengqi; Zhang, Xiaobo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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ON ENDOGENEITY OF RETAIL MARKET POWER IN AN EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS: A CONTROL FUNCTION APPROACH
Hovhannisyan, Vardges; Stiegert, Kyle W.; Bozic, Marin - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The endogeneity of retail market power arises in the retail pricing equation due to the correlation between margins and unobserved cost components. Nevertheless, it has long been ignored in the equilibrium analysis of retail behavior. We address the issue via a control function approach in a new...
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In the form of bread? A randomized comparison of cash and food transfers in Yemen
Schwab, Benjamin - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
years. Within that context, we study a randomized control trial of 136 rural communities in Yemen. Poor households in half … of the communities received assistance in the form of in-kind food (wheat flour and oil), and households in the other … half received an equal valued cash transfer. On average, households that received cash exhibited greater dietary diversity …
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Determinants of Fresh Vegetable, Fresh Fruit and Peanut Products Expenditure in Urban Households in Ghana
Meng, Ting; Florkowski, Wojciech J.; Sarpong, Daniel; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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Comparing Perceptions of Biotechnology in Fresh versus Processed Foods: A Cross-Cultural Study
Kim, Hyeyoung; House, Lisa - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This study focused on investigating how respondents’ perceptions of biotechnology used in food production differs depending on the level of product transformation (i.e. fresh versus processed food). Using cluster analysis, respondents were clustered into two groups, genetically engineered (GE)...
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