The Impact of Mandatory Disclosure Laws on Product Choices: An Analysis of the Salad Dressing Market*

By A. Mathios. Journal law and economy, 2000

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Investor Psychology in Capital Markets: Evidence and Policy Implications (2001, unknown): “For example, Mathios (2000) examined the effect of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act on purchases of salad dressing, which made mandatory the labelling of information about fat content.”
Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection and Online Disclosure: The Case of eBay Motors (2011, background): “On the empirical side, there is a diverse literature on both mandatory and voluntary disclosure (see e.g. Mathios (2000), Jin and Leslie (2003), Jin (2005) Jin and Kato (2006)).”
Disclosing Multiple Product Attributes (2011, unknown): “A hygiene card shows an aggregate grade on hygiene quality: “A” (90–100%), “B” (80–89%), “C” (70–79%), or the actual score if it is less than 70%.2 Mathios (2000), on the other hand, finds that only half of the salad dressings wear nutrition labels before the national mandate, Nutrition Labeling…”
Can information costs affect consumer choice? Nutritional labels in a supermarket experiment (2013, unknown): “Mathios (2000) finds that mandatory guidelines resulted in a significant decline in sales of high fat products, despite prior voluntary disclosure of low-fat products, and Teisl et al. (2001)find that consumer behavior was significantly altered by the NLEA, but purchases of “healthy” products…”
Got Organic Milk? Consumer Valuations of Milk Labels after the Implementation of the USDA Organic Seal (2007, background): “…as a successful tool of altering consumer behavior, however, availability of information does not necessarily ensure that it will be incorporated into consumer behavior (e.g. Mathios 2000, Ippolito and Pappalardo 2002, Jin and Leslie 2003, Teisl, Bockstael and Levy 2001, Ippolito and Mathios 1995).”
Quality Disclosure and Certification: Theory and Practice (2010, methodology): “Using salad dressing as an example, Mathios (2000) demonstrates that many producers of higher-fat salad dressing withheld fat information before the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act came into effect.”
Do Data Breaches Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft? (2010, background): “Mathios (2000) examines the effects of mandatory disclosure of food labels on salad dressings in a chain of New York grocery stores.”
Healthy Choice: The Effect of Simplified Point-of-Sale Nutritional Information on Consumer Food Choice Behavior (2015, background): “Unsurprisingly, the implementation of the NLEA has attracted the attention of the academic community as well (e.g., Balasubramanian and Cole 2002; Keller et al. 1997; Mathios 2000; Moorman 1996; Variyam and Cawley 2006).”
The Influence of Expert Reviews on Consumer Demand for Experience Goods: A Case Study of Movie Critics (2005, result): “Research contemporaneous with ours by Basuroy, Chatterjee, and Ravid [2003] supports this view.”
Multitasking, Information Disclosure and Product Quality: Evidence from Nursing Homes (2012, background): “See Blumenthal and Kilo (1998), Rainwater et al. (1998), Epstein (1998), Mathios (2000), Ferris et al. (2001) and Dranove and Jin (2010). ones; (2) there is no evidence that nursing homes decrease qualityrelated inputs.”
Is No News (Perceived As) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure (2015, unknown): “See Section 2.3 for a brief review of the related literature.”
Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants (2011, unknown): “…60 most popular menu items.36 Although the sales changes display a slight negative correlation with calories (as indicated by the fitted regression line), the estimated effects are highly variable and do not demonstrate a statistically significant pattern of high calorie items losing market share.”