Eco-labelled food products: what are consumers paying for?

By D. Bougherara, P. Combris. 2009

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Tasting green: An experimental design for investigating consumer perception of organic wine (2014, background): “Nevertheless, it does not automatically mean that the product is healthier or tastier than its conventionally produced counterpart – actually, the organic label is still only a guarantee of a specific process (Bougherara and Combris, 2009).”
Food Labeling and Eco-Friendly Consumption: Experimental Evidence From a Belgian Supermarket (2014, methodology): “These labels vary in the degree to which the LCA data are aggregated and translated into environmental impacts, ranging from raw information, information translated into a normalized color scale, to a comprehensive overall score.”
Willingness to pay for environmental attributes of non-food agricultural products: a real choice experiment (2013, background): “Differently, Bougherara and Combris (2009) find no evidence that consumers’ willingness to pay for an eco-labelled orange juice are driven by its perceived sanitary attributes.”
The strategic use of private quality standards in food supply chains (2012, unknown): “14 It is shown, for example, that consumers are willing to pay a premium for eco-labeled food (Bougherara and Combris 2009), for organic products (Gil et al. 2000), for milk quality attributes (Bernard and Bernard 2009; Brooks and Lusk 2010; Kanter et al. 2009), and for beef quality attributes (Gao…”