Health and environmental consciousness, costs of behaviour and the purchase of organic food

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 30-37

  Kriwy, Peter ^a   Mecking, Rebecca Ariane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Health investments; Heckman correction; Low cost hypothesis; Organic foods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864736475     PISSN: 14706423     EISSN: 14706431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-6431.2011.01004.x     Document Type: Article

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