Effects of income and social awareness on consumer WTP for social product attributes

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 587-593

  Ubilava, David ^a   Foster, Kenneth A ^a   Lusk, Jayson L ^a   Nilsson, Tomas ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixed logit; Social product attributes; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; CONSUMER ATTITUDES; CONSUMER PREFERENCES; DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCTS; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; MASLOW'S HIERARCHY; MIXED LOGIT; NEW PRODUCTION; PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES; SOCIAL AWARENESS; SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ANIMALS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEITY; INCOME; PHILOSOPHY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77950077586     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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