Während für die Jahre 1995 bis 1998 für das Qualitäts- und Herkunftszeichen „Qualität aus Bayern“ bei Rindfleisch signifikante, positive Wohlfahrtseffekte und eine Mehrzahlungsbereitschaft beim Verbraucher ermittelt wurden, ergibt sich für die Zeit nach BSE aufgrund...

Communities throughout the Western United States are challenged by tight water supplies and swelling populations. Information is needed to better develop and target municipal water conservation programs. Significant water savings ranging from 35% to 70% are possible from changes in residential...

Consumers prefer ecolabeled products. However, little is known about the effects of ecolabels when consumers are simultaneously exposed to negative environmental information. We conducted a stated choice experiment in France with eight fish products that were either ecolabeled or unlabeled. Four...

Die Nachfrage nach Öko-Lebensmitteln war in den letzten Jahren in Deutschland durch zwei parallele Entwicklungen gekennzeichnet: eine stark gestiegene Nachfrage nach Öko- Lebensmitteln aus tierischer Erzeugung und durch den zunehmenden Wunsch vieler Öko- Verbraucher nach Lebensmitteln aus der...

Paper for presentation at the Northeastern Agricultural & Resource Economics Association’s Workshop on Economics and Child Nutrition Programs, AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 23, 2011.

This paper develops a new structural estimator that uses the properties of a market equilibrium, together with information on households and their observed location choices, to recover horizontally differentiated preferences for a vector of local public goods. The estimation is consistent with...

Stated preference approaches are widely used in non-market valuation. However, their potential uses extend far beyond valuation. In particular they can be used to assess efficiency of resource allocations and to design optimal resource allocations. Changes to the government budget were evaluated...

This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.

Coffee consumption in China is increasing rapidly over the recent years. This study offers one of the few initial attempts to not only understand general consumption behavior associated with Chinese coffee, but to explore the viability of niche markets for coffee with the credence attribute...

We analyze the correlation between farm productivity and market participation using comparable household data from Tanzania, Vietnam and Guatemala. Each farm’s input use and output levels provide a within-sample measure of relative productivity, which we relate to that household’s level of...