Stated and revealed preferences for organic and cloned milk: Combining choice experiment and scanner data

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1229-1241

  Brooks, Kathleen ^a   Lusk, Jayson L ^b  

^a WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

choice experiment; cloning; milk; organic; revealed preference; scanner data; stated preference; willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CLONE; DATA SET; MILK PRODUCTION; ORGANIC FARMING; RETAILING; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77956628202     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aaq054     Document Type: Article

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