This article constructs a theoretical model of rational food waste and analyzes how an extension of a food product …'s sell-by date affect a household's decisions of purchase volume and food waste. We then use the elimination of New York City … effectively reduces food waste and improves consumer welfare. Our results suggest that the new policy reduces purchase volume by …

People compensate for small food unit sizes by eating more units compared to regular sized units, but the aggregate of … overindulgence and impulsivity. This suggests that if perceptions of a food unit’s smallness could be disrupted, people may not need … to compensate, resulting in a further reduction in aggregate food chosen and consumed. In a lab and field experiment …

Genetically engineered plants and animals have become and will continue to constitute a large part of the food we … is one of the main contributors to this phenomenon that has changed not only the kinds of food we eat, but the nature of … food that has remained unexplored: the effect on independent research and scientific inquiry. There is currently a void in …

countries and lucrative markets in industrialized nations. However, food access for poor consumers in Third World cities depends … outlets for smallholders’ heterogeneous production, while simultaneously ensuring availability of cheap food for poor urban …

, consumers increasingly make choices not necessarily based on the nutrition label, but on other messages and labels on food, such … expectations leading to consumer deception. The deception may be caused by a shift from regulating food products to regulating the … food process or the result of the goals of the regulatory agency. The problems are exacerbated by recent progress in …

This paper investigates household food waste in the context of inefficient food production. Food waste is typically … defined as the proportion of edible food that goes unconsumed, whereas inefficiency is measured by a household's inability to … reach some technically efficient production frontier. Because food waste can be avoided through improved efficiency, we …

The presence of food waste, and ways to it, has generated significant debate among industry stakeholders, policy makers …, and consumer groups around the world. Many have argued that the variety of date labels used by food manufacturers leads to … confusion about food quality and food safety among consumers. Here, we develop a between-subject, laboratory experiment with …

the welfare effects of food labels and bans for three common survey/experimental approaches used to elicit consumer …

Background: Genetically modified (GM) foods could be a promising option to reduce the dependence of the agri-food … system on conventional means of crop improvement. However, the safety of GM food remains a concern, in addition to the … tools. The search strategy utilized the topic basis search of phrases related to GM food preference and perception …

low quality of animal food. Correction of this market failure is attained by taxing animal food output and subsidizing … animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more …