Valuing Lives Saved from Safer Food—A Cautionary Tale Revisited

Shogren, Jason F.; Stamland, Tommy

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8276.2007.01080.x

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“…(Buzby et al, 1995) This would explain and determine, at the same time, the investment of a great proportion of income to purchasing food products perceived as safer and of better quality. (Govindasamy & Italy, 1999) Some studies have 3 Eom (1994); Buzby et al (1995Buzby et al ( , 1998; Cao et al (1995);Caswell (1995); Cummings et al (1995); Wessells & Anderson (1995); Govindasamy & Italia (1997; Fox et al (1998); Huang et al (1999); Kuchler & Golan (1999); Gil et al (2000); Shogren et al (2000); Stenger (2000); Govindasamy et al (2001); Ara (2002); Loureiro et al (2002); Corsi & Novelli (2003); Kola & Latvala (2003); Conner & Christie (2004); Travisi & Nijkamp (2004); Goldberg & Roosen (2005); Goldberg et al (2006); Onozaka et al (2006) 4 Buenos Aires, capital of the Republic of Argentina, is the most densely populated city and centers most trading activities in the country.…”

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Willingness to pay for organic food in Argentina: evidence from a consumer survey

Rodríguez,

Lacaze,

Lupín

2009

International Marketing and Trade of Quality Food Products

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Most food markets do not count on complete information about food quality for consumers. Quality has become a key concept in the new approaches of the Demand Theory (Lancaster, 1966;Antle, 1999), and, therefore, food quality information has turned into a crucial factor when explaining the existing differences between demand profiles. Throughout these last years, organic agriculture has undergone a notorious expansion due, among other things, to the greater interest shown by consumers aware of food safety concerns involving real or potential quality risks perceptions. (Henson, 1996) This paper aims to estimate consumers´ willingness to pay (WTP) for organic food products available in the Argentinean domestic market, with a view to providing useful evidence to the government, and thus gain support in the promotion of organic production, regulation processes and labelling programs. The Contingent Valuation Method (Hanemann, 1984) was selected to estimate WTP. Data derives from a food consumption survey conducted in Buenos Aires city in April 2005. The parameters estimates for the selected products were obtained by applying a Binomial Multiple Logistic Regression. The results indicate that Argentinean consumers are willing to pay a price premium to acquire better quality products. Indeed, this is conditioned by the effective prices in the domestic market, in which price premiums range from 6% to 200%, thereby restricting their acquisition. Besides, the scarce availability of these healthy products has also become another meaningful obstacle for domestic consumption expansion in Argentina.

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Section: Determinants Of Wtp For Organic Foodmentioning

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Willingness to pay for organic food in Argentina: evidence from a consumer survey

Rodríguez,

Lacaze,

Lupín

2009

International Marketing and Trade of Quality Food Products

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“…The Shogren and Stamland (2007) analysis is part of a larger study these authors conducted using the Knowledge Networks web panel. As part of one of the study, respondents were asked about their health status, behavior related to food safety risk, and risk perceptions.…”

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Public or Private Production of Food Safety: What Do U.S. Consumers Want?

Smith¹,

Mansfield²,

Strong³

2008

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“…Private information and precautionary measures are typically unobserved in observational studies, but may systematically affect both perceptions and actions. For example, consumers choose the quality, storage place, and preparation of their foods, thereby affecting the likelihood of contracting a foodborne illness (Shogren and Stamland 2007 ). It might thus be perfectly rational for a consumer to believe her risk differs from the population average risk even if she is otherwise similar to the average consumer.…”

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Dinner with Bayes: On the revision of risk beliefs

Rheinberger

Hammitt

2018

J Risk Uncertain

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We study how people form and revise health risk beliefs based on food safety information. In an online experiment, subjects stated their perceived risk of contracting a foodborne illness before and after receiving information about the population average risk and the eating habits of the average consumer. Precautionary effort in handling and preparing food reduced prior risk beliefs, but did not affect the belief revision process. About one quarter of subjects either fully ignored the information provided or revised their beliefs inconsistently with the Bayesian learning hypothesis. We find several factors related to the subjects’ numerical skills that explain information refusal and inconsistent belief revisions and discuss them in the context of health risks.

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Valuing Lives Saved from Safer Food—A Cautionary Tale Revisited

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Willingness to pay for organic food in Argentina: evidence from a consumer survey

Willingness to pay for organic food in Argentina: evidence from a consumer survey

Public or Private Production of Food Safety: What Do U.S. Consumers Want?

Dinner with Bayes: On the revision of risk beliefs

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