Sugar-sweetened beverage price elasticities in a hypothetical convenience store

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 225, Issue , 2019, Pages 98-107

  Blake, Miranda R ^a,b   Lancsar, Emily ^a,c   Peeters, Anna ^b   Backholer, Kathryn ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Choice modelling; Consumer behaviour; Experimental economics; Heterogeneity; Legal; Price elasticities; Public policy; Sugar sweetened beverage

Indexed keywords

BEVERAGE; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DETERMINATION; PRICE DYNAMICS; PRICING POLICY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; ECONOMICS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME GROUP; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; YOUNG ADULT;

AUSTRALIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; COMMERCE; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85062020056     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.021     Document Type: Article

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