U.S. consumers' willingness to pay for food labeled 'genetically modified'

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 299-310

  Onyango, Benjamin ^a   Nayga Jr , Rodolfo M ^b   Govindasamy, Ramu ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetically modified foods; Labeling genetically modified foods; Random parameter logit model

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33846371235     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500006742     Document Type: Article

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