Food safety policy programs often involve communication campaigns that inform the general public about reductions in the risk of experiencing negative outcomes in the future. Using a stated-choice survey, we find that people do not fully accept scientific risk estimates, but they adjust these to...

We introduce a new class of preferences — which we call additive-belief-based (ABB) —that captures a general and yet tractable approach to belief-based utility, and that encompasses many popular models in the behavioral literature. We show that the general class of ABB preferences and two...

We analyze consumer demand behavior using Dynamic Random Utility Model (DRUM). Under DRUM, a consumer draws a utility function from a stochastic utility process in each period and maximizes this utility subject to her budget constraint. DRUM allows unrestricted time correlation and cross-section...