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Alok Bhargava - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Food Economics and health
    Social Science Research Network, 2008
    Co-Authors: Alok Bhargava
    Abstract:

    Drawing on the author's extensive and varied research, this book provides readers with a firm grounding in the concepts and issues across several disciplines including Economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of improving the design of Food policies in the developed and developing world. Using longitudinal (panel) data from India, Bangladesh, Kenya, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Pakistan and extending the analytical framework used in Economics and biomedical sciences to include multi-disciplinary analyses, Alok Bhargava shows how rigorous and thoughtful econometric and statistical analysis can improve our understanding of the relationships between a number of socioeconomic, nutritional, and behavioural variables on a number of issues like cognitive development in children and labour productivity in the developing world. These unique insights combined with a multi-disciplinary approach forge the way for a more refined and effective approach to Food policy formation going forward. A chapter on the growing obesity epidemic is also included, highlighting the new set of problems facing not only developed but developing countries. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms to assist readers coming from a variety of disciplines. "Alok Bhargava can always be expected to write important papers and texts on major topics concerning how real people live (or not) and the quality of their lives using advanced arguments from Economics and based on skilled use of econometric methodology. Here he tackles the vital interaction between Economics with health, Food consumption, and Economics tangled up with questions about attitudes to poverty and gender. This is a rich and difficult field and quickly leads to questions about the objectives of a society and the various difficult choices about how best to target resources. It should be remembered that countless intellectual giants from the past, such as Newton, Galileo, and Shakespeare, lived and succeeded whilst living in conditions that would now be considered as deplorable. Economics and scientific discovery can take us some way towards making rational decisions but one probably needs philosophy and sound politics to reach the best outcomes. Alok has written an excellent book which requires careful thought and introspection to get to all of its important topics." Clive Granger, 2003 Nobel Prize for Economics Laureate

  • Food Economics and health
    OUP Catalogue, 2008
    Co-Authors: Alok Bhargava
    Abstract:

    Preface Glossary 1. Introduction 2. Demand for Food and nutrients in developing countries 3. Nutrition and child health outcomes in developing countries 4. Child health and cognitive development in developing countries 5. Fertility, child mortality, and economic development 6. Nutrition, health, and productivity in developing countries 7. Behavior, diet, and obesity in developed countries 8. Summing up and concluding remarks

  • Food Economics and health
    Research Papers in Economics, 2008
    Co-Authors: Alok Bhargava
    Abstract:

    Drawing on the author's extensive and varied research, this book provides readers with a firm grounding in the concepts and issues across several disciplines including Economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of improving the design of Food policies in the developed and developing world. Using longitudinal (panel) data from India, Bangladesh, Kenya, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Pakistan and extending the analytical framework used in Economics and biomedical sciences to include multi-disciplinary analyses, Alok Bhargava shows how rigorous and thoughtful econometric and statistical analysis can improve our understanding of the relationships between a number of socioeconomic, nutritional, and behavioural variables on a number of issues like cognitive development in children and labour productivity in the developing world. These unique insights combined with a multi-disciplinary approach forge the way for a more refined and effective approach to Food policy formation going forward. A chapter on the growing obesity epidemic is also included, highlighting the new set of problems facing not only developed but developing countries. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms to assist readers coming from a variety of disciplines. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/Economicsfinance/9780199269143/toc.html

Klaus G. Grunert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Food quality and safety consumer perception and demand
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2005
    Co-Authors: Klaus G. Grunert
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    Research on consumer quality perception is reviewed using the Total Food Quality Model as a structuring device. The relationship between Food safety and quality is addressed, and is discussed in the context of research on consumer risk perception. Quality and safety perception is linked to Food choice and consumer demand, addressing questions of price perception and the validity of willingness-to-pay measurements. It is concluded that Food quality and safety are central issues in today's Food Economics, though many research questions remain to be addressed. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.

  • Food quality and safety consumer perception and demand
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2005
    Co-Authors: Klaus G. Grunert
    Abstract:

    Research on consumer quality perception is reviewed using the Total Food Quality Model as a structuring device. The relationship between Food safety and quality is addressed, and is discussed in the context of research on consumer risk perception. Quality and safety perception is linked to Food choice and consumer demand, addressing questions of price perception and the validity of willingness-to-pay measurements. It is concluded that Food quality and safety are central issues in today’s Food Economics, though many research questions remain to be addressed.

Szabó E. - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • From the Food economy research to the consumer sciences
    'Akademiai Kiado Zrt.', 2029
    Co-Authors: Szabó E.
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    Socio-economic analyses appeared among the research subjects of the Central Food Research Institute for the first time in 1982 with reference to the institutional reorganization. In addition to the earlier issues supported by economic calculations, activities of the unit involved in Food Economics had been more and more featured by turning to topics serving for quality products manufacture (implementation of quality management systems, labelling, the population’s Food consumption etc.), as well as by joining the research work of the associated departments making their activities more complex. Also the socioeconomic regime change in 1989 made substantial impact on the activities performed at the unit. For the time being, consumer scientific studies provide main direction of the research with special regard to consumer perception of Food safety risks and Food safety risk communication.Possibilities for dynamic development in the pioneered way seem to be sure with reflection to healthy nutrition as well as environmental and ethical issues

Wei Hongli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • THREE ESSAYS ON Food Economics STUDIES
    ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2018
    Co-Authors: Wei Hongli
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    In this dissertation research, we first study how legislations governing nutrients in Food production have influenced consumer behaviors and firm choices. Taking margarine and spreads as the product category of choice, Chapter 1 analyzes how consumers and firms responded to the 2006 implementation of the NLEA trans fats labeling guidelines. Our results show that product offerings with “trans fat free” labels increased shortly after 2006, while consumer purchases of products with “trans fat free” labels also surged promptly after the labeling policy was implemented. However, in general, we find the short-term effects of trans fat labeling to be significantly larger than the long-term effects. In Chapter 2, we extend the previous research in estimating consumers’ willingness to pay for trans fat using scanner data on purchases of microwavable popcorn from 2006 to 2014, after mandatory labeling was instituted. Product-level multinomial logit model results suggest that trans fat content on average increases consumer demand, with significant regional preference heterogeneity. Consumers in the Northeast have a higher preference for trans fat popcorn than in the other three regions. In addition, we find evidence to show that this positive preference for trans fat has become stronger since the 2006 mandatory labeling rule, implying that consumers value the taste of trans fat over trans fat health concerns. Chapter 3 explores the WIC infant formula rebate program, which awards a single-source contract to the firm that offers the lowest net bid price. We find different spillover patterns by comparing three types of formula: top WIC infant formula, non-WIC infant formula, and toddler formula. In particular, immediately after the contract change, there is a significant increase in market share for all three types of formula for the winning manufacturer due to greater shelf space, better product placement, and the advantages of carrying WIC labels. Our empirical results suggest that losing manufacturers still enjoy a spillover privilege in the toddler formula market from consumers’ brand loyalty. Over time, the spillover effect increases the winner’s share and decreases the losers’ shares for all infant formula, which may reflect a combined impact of recommendations from physicians and WIC participants. Lastly, we observe that winning manufacturers increase the price of top WIC and all other infant formula and decrease the price of toddler formula over time. The spillover effect allows losing manufacturers to increase prices for all three types of formula at least 2 years after a contract change

Giuseppe Timpanaro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • ethics sustainability and logistics in agricultural and agri Food Economics research
    Italian Journal of Agronomy, 2012
    Co-Authors: Pietro Pulina, Giuseppe Timpanaro
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    This study analyzes the changes osberved in the agri-Food system with the advent of logistical management of the flow of goods and information along the Food supply chain. Agri-Food functions and responsibilities towards society are also analyzed. This field of research has been widely explored in recent years following the development of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) certification in agri-business. The analysis starts by examining the coherence of the ethical basis of human choices in a homo oeconomicus framework in which social relationships are merely exploitable activities. CSR development is then studied in the light of the new stakeholder theory for firms. The main fields of economic research into sustainable development and the most important goals achieved are examined and the methodological perspectives of agricultural Economics research will also be discussed.