What to choose? The value of label claims to fresh produce consumers

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 402-427

  Bond, Craig A ^a   Thilmany, Dawn D ^a   Bond, Jennifer Keeling ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Conditional distribution; Preference heterogeneity; Produce labels; Random parameters

Indexed keywords

LACTUCA;

EID: 59549106542     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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