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Tobacco Product Demand, Cigarette Taxes, and Market Substitution
Da Pra, Michelle; Arnade, Carlos A. - 2009
This paper presents a model of estimated demand for four tobacco products: cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, and … smoking tobacco products. Own elasticities and cross-price elasticities are used to obtain insights into the effectiveness and … implications of new policy measures. Of particular interest is whether substitution of various tobacco products varies by market …
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Analysis of Fruit Consumption in the U.S. with a Quadratic AIDS Model
Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework; Huang, Chung L.; Fonsah, … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
The Quadratic AIDS model was estimated to analyze the U.S. fruit consumption using annual per capita consumption data and prices for a demand system consisting of fresh fruit, fruit juice and other processed fruit. All Marshallian own price elasticities are found to be negative and the demand...
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EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF THE 2007 RECALL ON THE DEMAND FOR PEANUT BUTTER BRANDS
Bakhtavoryan, Rafael; Capps, Oral; Salin, Victoria - 2011
The US Food and Drug Administration confirmed in February 2007 that a major foodborne illness outbreak was caused by two peanut butter brands, Peter Pan and Great Value, manufactured by ConAgra Foods Inc. at its Sylvester, Georgia, processing plant. As a result, on February 14, 2007, ConAgra...
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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?
Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - 2008
This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...
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2009
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The Willingness to Spend on Healthcare: Evidence from Singapore
Gan, Lydia L.; Frederick, James R. - In: Review of Applied Economics 06 (2010) 1-2
For the past few decades, the household healthcare expenditures have experienced a phenomenal growth in Singapore. This paper seeks to identify the underlying socio-economic factors that contribute towards this phenomenon by employing time series data to examine the household willingness to...
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Comparison of consumers' perceptions of organic products between the United States and Poland
Grzelak, PaweÅ‚; Maciejczak, Mariusz - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 115 (2013) 1
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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link
Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...
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Are Healthy Foods Really More Expensive? It Depends on How You Measure the Price
Carlson, Andrea; Frazao, Elizabeth - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012
Most Americans consume diets that do not meet Federal dietary recommendations. A common explanation is that healthier foods are more expensive than less healthy foods. To investigate this assumption, the authors compare prices of healthy and less healthy foods using three different price...
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Integration of Smallholders in Modern Agri-food Chains: Lessons from the KASCOL Model in Zambia
Mungandi, Sepiso; Conforte, Daniel; Shadbolt, Nicola M. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) 3
The IFAMR is the official journal of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. We are open access. The complete library can be found at www.ifama.org
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