Consumers’ Preferences for Health Related and Environmental Friendly Food Attributes of Italian Pasta

dc.creatorDefrancesco, Edi
dc.creatorPerito, Maria Angela
dc.creatorBozzolan, Irene
dc.creatorCei, Leonardo
dc.creatorStefani, Gianluca
dc.date2017-06-30T03:13:31Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T11:29:25Z
dc.descriptionThis paper explores Italian consumers’ appreciation for health-related and environmentally friendly attributes of whole-wheat pasta. A modified version of the attribute-based referenda (ABR) model has been estimated on a sequence of two dichotomous choice questions randomly administered to a sample of households, starting as a single-attribute version (“adding” treatment) or a complete product version (“subtracting” treatment). The results suggest that taste and habits are considerable barriers, since only whole-wheat pasta consumers are willing to pay for health-related attributes. Overall, people are unwilling to pay for the environmental attribute even when informed of a product’s environmentally friendly method of production. However, the way in which the choice is framed is important, with higher values attached to attributes evaluated in the subtracting context, supporting prospect theory and the endowment effect
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.258164
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/258164/files/25-Stefani-ItalianPasta.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/258164
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/628143
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/258164
dc.titleConsumers’ Preferences for Health Related and Environmental Friendly Food Attributes of Italian Pasta
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