Search Results - "Kaiser, Harry M"

Absence labels: How does information about production practices impact consumer demand? by Streletskaya, Nadia A, Liaukonyte, Jura, Kaiser, Harry M

“…Absence labels promote the absence of a particular ingredient or production practice. Consumers usually perceive organic labels as an umbrella absence label…”
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Signaling impacts of GMO labeling on fruit and vegetable demand by Yeh, D Adeline, Gómez, Miguel I, Kaiser, Harry M

“…Food labels may have both informational and signaling influences on consumer demand. We conduct a choice experiment with over 1,300 subjects to examine the…”
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Estimating the degree of market power in the vegetable market in Japan by Sano, Yuki, Sato, Takeshi, Kawasaki, Kentaro, Suzuki, Nobuhiro, Kaiser, Harry M.

“…To adequately capture the market structure of vegetables in Japan, it is necessary to develop an oligopolistic model due to the potential market power of…”
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Eat at Home or Away from Home? The Role of Grocery and Restaurant Food Sales Taxes by Zheng, Yuqing, Dong, Diansheng, Burney, Shaheer, Kaiser, Harry M.

“…Sales taxes on either grocery food or restaurant food exist in almost every U.S. county. By combining county-level sales tax data with the USDA's recent…”
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Grocery food taxes and U.S. county obesity and diabetes rates by Wang, Lingxiao, Zheng, Yuqing, Buck, Steven, Dong, Diansheng, Kaiser, Harry M

“…Background: Grocery food taxes represent a stable tax revenue stream for state and municipal government during times of adverse economic shocks such as that…”
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Noisy Information Signals and Endogenous Preferences for Labeled Attributes by Liaukonyte, Jura, Streletskaya, Nadia A, Kaiser, Harry M

“…Consumer preferences for labeled products are often assumed to be exogenous to the presence of labels. However, the label itself (and not the information on…”
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Do taxes on groceries increase body weight and restaurant food expenditures? Theory and evidence from the PSID data by Wang, Lingxiao, Zheng, Yuqing, Kaiser, Harry M.

“…•Grocery taxes affect food expenditure allocations and consequently increase body weight.•Increases in grocery taxes relative to restaurant taxes incentivize…”
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Labeling Food Processes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Messer, Kent D., Costanigro, Marco, Kaiser, Harry M.

“…Consumers are increasingly exposed to labels communicating specific processing aspects of food production, and recent state and federal legislation in the…”
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Do Consumer Responses to Media Food Safety Information Last? by Dillaway, Robin, Messer, Kent D, Bernard, John C, Kaiser, Harry M

“…Using experimental methods with adult subjects from the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, this research examines both the short- and longer-term…”
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Consumer Response to Commodity-Specific and Broad-Based Promotion Programs for Fruits and Vegetables by Rickard, Bradley J., Liaukonyte, Jura, Kaiser, Harry M., Richards, Timothy J.

“…Generic promotion activities have traditionally been used for individual agricultural commodities, yet there is renewed interest in implementing a mandatory…”
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Generic Advertising in an Asymmetric Cournot Oligopoly by Zheng, Yuqing, Bar, Talia, Kaiser, Harry M.

“…We examine how benefits of mandated generic advertising vary with firm size in an asymmetric Cournot oligopoly market. Generic advertising, funded through a…”
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It's all relative: consistent marginal effects with willingness to pay and willingness to accept framing in experimental auctions by Li, Tongzhe, Paul, Laura A., Messer, Kent D., Kaiser, Harry M.

“…When eliciting consumer preferences for controversial products - an increasing number of which exist due to increasing demographic diversity and political…”
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The impact of expiration dates labels on hedonic markets for perishable products by Li, Tongzhe, Messer, Kent D., Kaiser, Harry M.

“…•Investigates how expiration dates impact consumer preferences.•Inferences are drawn from a pre-registered field experiment.•Expiration dates largely…”
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Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP? by Zhao, Jianqiang J., Kaiser, Harry M., Zheng, Yuqing

“…The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest federal food assistance program in the United States and is designed to reduce food…”
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Measuring the Effects of a Sliding Scale Duty System on China's Cotton Market: A Spatial Equilibrium Approach by Wang, Xuejun, Maeda, Koshi, Hokazono, Satoshi, Suzuki, Nobuhiro, Kaiser, Harry M

“…We examined the impacts of China's implementation of a sliding scale duty (SSD) system on the world cotton market. The analysis was based on a spatial…”
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The impact of climate change on maize yields in the United States and China by Li, Xiang, Takahashi, Taro, Suzuki, Nobuhiro, Kaiser, Harry M.

“…► Profitability of maize and technological adaptation have significant maize yield impacts. ► Climate change impacts maybe substantially different for China…”
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The Effects of Product Standards on Trade: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence from China by Wang, Xuejun, Zhang, Xiaoqi, Meng, Dan, Kaiser, Harry M.

“…Using China Compulsory Certification (CCC) as a case study, we investigate how compulsory certification schemes impact China's imports. A…”
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Does Advertising Content Matter? Impacts of Healthy Eating and Anti-Obesity Advertising on Willingness to Pay by Consumer Body Mass Index by Wang, Ruitong, Liaukonyte, Jura, Kaiser, Harry M.

“…This study examines the impacts of two types of advertising content—healthy eating and anti-obesity advertising—on the demand for healthy and unhealthy food…”
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Putting grocery food taxes on the table: Evidence for food security policy-makers by Zheng, Yuqing, (Jason) Zhao, Jianqiang, Buck, Steven, Burney, Shaheer, Kaiser, Harry M., Wilson, Norbert L.

“…•Grocery taxes existed in more than one third of U.S. states in 2020.•States with grocery taxes or considering grocery taxes tend to have higher food…”
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The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods by Cawley, John, Sweeney, Matthew J, Sobal, Jeffery, Just, David R, Kaiser, Harry M, Schulze, William D, Wethington, Elaine, Wansink, Brian

“…The current study examines the impact of a nutrition rating system on consumers' food purchases in supermarkets. Aggregate sales data for 102 categories of…”
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