Consumer response to food safety risk information
| dc.creator | Hoffmann, Vivian | |
| dc.creator | Murphy, Mike | |
| dc.creator | Kariuki, Sarah | |
| dc.date | 2024-12-20 | |
| dc.date | 2024-12-20T19:55:21Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-12-20T19:55:21Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T15:44:00Z | |
| dc.description | Unsafe food imposes significant health and productivity burdens on developing countries. We test the impact of a simple information intervention through which low-income urban consumers in Kenya were provided information about the likelihood that maize flour from the formal and informal sector violated a food safety standard. We find a 42 percent increase in the share of households consuming the similarly priced, lower risk formal sector flour type at follow-up in the treatment group relative to the control group, from a base of 33 percent. The intervention was equally effective for households earning below and above the sample median income level. Our results demonstrate the potential for low-cost interventions to increase the salience of food safety as a product attribute in informal markets or where regulatory enforcement is weak. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168191 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/113082 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| dc.relation | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135798 | |
| dc.relation | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/124974 | |
| dc.relation | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102620 | |
| dc.relation | https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294561_05 | |
| dc.rights | Open Access | |
| dc.source | Hoffmann, Vivian; Murphy, Mike; and Kariuki, Sarah. 2024. Consumer response to food safety risk information. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2305. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168191 | |
| dc.subject | consumers | |
| dc.subject | food safety | |
| dc.subject | health | |
| dc.subject | households | |
| dc.subject | productivity | |
| dc.title | Consumer response to food safety risk information | |
| dc.type | Working Paper |