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Consumer Responses to Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Information : Evidence from Calorie Labeling by Starbucks

Avery, Rosemary J.; Cawley, John; Eddelbuettel, Julia; … - 2023

This paper estimates the impact on consumer behavior of a firm’s voluntary disclosure of information. Specifically, we study the impact of Starbucks’ disclosure of calorie information on its menu boards in June 2013. Using data on over 250,000 consumers’ visits to specific restaurant...

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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium

Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2014

similar non-chefs. We extend our analysis to cover 50 retail health categories and 241 food and drink categories. The results …, and a much smaller share for most food and drink products. We tie our estimates together using a stylized model of demand …

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Is the Focus on Food Deserts Fruitless? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Handbury, Jessie - 2015

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

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Making Nutritional Information Digestible : Effects of a Receipt-Based Intervention on Restaurant Purchases

Bedard, Kelly - 2014

We study the effects of receipts that include personalized ordering suggestions designed to reduce fat and calorie consumption on purchasing behavior at a restaurant chain. We find that customers, in the aggregate, made most of the item substitutions that were encouraged by the messages, such as...

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How Consumer Price Subsidies Affect Nutrition

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …

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Counterfeiters : Foes or Friends? How Do Counterfeits Affect Different Product Quality Tiers?

Qian, Yi - 2011

A key concern about counterfeits and weak intellectual property protection is that they may hamper innovation by displacing legitimate sales. This paper combines a natural policy experiment with randomized lab experiments to estimate the heterogeneous impacts of counterfeiting on the sales and...

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Does Accuracy Improve the Information Value of Trials?

Malani, Anup - 2011

We develop a model where products liability trials provide information to consumers who are not parties to the litigation. Consumers use this information to take precautions against dangerous products. A critical assumption is that consumers cannot differentiate between firms that have never...

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Trading Down and the Business Cycle

Jaimovich, Nir - 2015

We document two facts. First, during the Great Recession, consumers traded down in the quality of the goods and services they consumed. Second, the production of low-quality goods is less labor intensive than that of high-quality goods. When households traded down, labor demand fell, increasing...

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Price Salience and Product Choice

Blake, Thomas - 2018

We study the effect of price salience on whether a product is purchased and, conditional on purchase, the quality purchased. Consistent with our theoretical predictions, we find that making the full purchase price salient to consumers reduces both the quality and quantity of goods purchased. The...

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Good Rankings are Bad : Why Reliable Rankings Can Hurt Consumers

Bouton, Laurent - 2015

Rankings have become increasingly popular on various markets, e.g. the market for study programs. We analyze their welfare implications. Consumers have to choose between two goods of unknown quality with exogenous presence or absence of an unbiased informative ranking. The existence of the...

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