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标题：Consumer willingness to pay for food safety: the case of mycotoxins in milk
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作者：Paolo Sckokai ; Mario Veneziani ; Daniele Moro 等
期刊名称：Bio-based and Applied Economics
印刷版ISSN：2280-6172
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：63-81
DOI：10.13128/BAE-12827
语种：English
出版社：Bio-based and Applied Economics
摘要：Mycotoxins contamination in food is a serious source of health risks. This paper evaluates the Italian consumers’ perception of the mycotoxins’ risk through their willingness to pay (WTP) for a hypothetical bottle of milk obtained by cows fed with, inter alia, maize certified for the “good practices” (GPs) that reduce this risk. Therefore, a web-based stated choice experiment (SCE) has been carried out involving a representative sample of 973 Italian consumers and the WTP has been measured using the panel data version of a Random Parameters Logit (RPL) model. Results show that Italian consumers are willing to pay a 29% average price premium for “reduced-mycotoxins” milk. This premium increases for consumers between 44 and 54 years of age, who are students, have completed tertiary education, are economically well-off and shop fairly infrequently.
关键词：food safety;Mycotoxins;willingness to pay;choice experiments, mixed logit