Willingness to pay for the "Green Food" in China

Food Policy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 80-87

  Yu, Xiaohua ^a   Gao, Zhifeng ^b   Zeng, Yinchu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

China; Green Food; Interval regression; WTP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894095720     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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