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Conservation : From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium
Kotchen, Matthew - 2007
This paper investigates how concern for the environment translates into predictable patterns of consumer behavior. Two types of behavior are considered. First, individuals who care about environmental quality may voluntarily restrain their consumption of goods and services that generate a...
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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels
Delmas, Magali A. - 2014
In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457912
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Consumer Reviews and Regulation : Evidence from NYC Restaurants
Farronato, Chiara; Zervas, Georgios - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
these hygiene signals. We also find suggestive evidence that restaurants that are more exposed to Yelp are cleaner along …
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Does Information Disclosure Improve Consumer Knowledge? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Restaurant Menu Calorie Labels
Cawley, John H. - 2020
The United States, in 2018, implemented a nationwide requirement that chain restaurants disclose calorie information on …
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The Impact of Information Disclosure on Consumer Behavior : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of Calorie Labels on Restaurant Menus
Cawley, John - 2018
requirement of calorie counts on the menus of chain restaurants took effect in the U.S. in May, 2018, and the results of such …-service restaurants, in which the control group received the usual menus and the treatment group received the same menus but with calorie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452834
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How Segregated is Urban Consumption?
Davis, Donald R. - 2017
We provide measures of ethnic and racial segregation in urban consumption. Using Yelp reviews, we estimate how spatial and social frictions influence restaurant visits within New York City. Transit time plays a first-order role in consumption choices, so consumption segregation partly reflects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453889
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Making Nutritional Information Digestible : Effects of a Receipt-Based Intervention on Restaurant Purchases
Bedard, Kelly - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459009
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The Role of Repugnance in Markets : How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway
Cawley, John H.; Eddelbuettel, Julia; Cunningham, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
regarding the restaurants they patronize. Despite the close and long-standing association of Jared Fogle with Subway, and heavy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421207
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The Median Voter and the Median Consumer : Local Private Goods and Residential Sorting
Waldfogel, Joel - 2006
tend to share his preferences in private goods. Using zip code level data on chain restaurants and restaurants overall …, this paper documents how the mix of locally available restaurants responds to the local mix of consumers, with three … education. Second, there is a strong relationship between restaurants and population at the zip code level, suggesting that …
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Tech Clusters
Kerr, William R. - 2020
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully foster them. We describe the...
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