Modeling heterogeneity in consumer preferences for select food safety attributes in China

Food Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 318-324

  Ortega, David L ^a   Wang, H Holly ^a   Wu, Laping ^b   Olynk, Nicole J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Food safety; Latent class model; Random parameters logit; Risk perceptions; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; FOOD SAFETY; MODELING; RISK PERCEPTION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CHINA;

EID: 79952316686     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.11.030     Document Type: Article

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