Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India

Food safety is an integral part of food security. One of the ways of ensuring food safety is through demand pull by consumers, which depends on the information available to them. One of the possible ways in which information is available to consumers is through their social networks. Focusing on dai...

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Main Authors: Chandra, Raj, Munasib, Abdul, Roy, Devesh, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149959
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Sonkar, Vinay Kumar
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description Food safety is an integral part of food security. One of the ways of ensuring food safety is through demand pull by consumers, which depends on the information available to them. One of the possible ways in which information is available to consumers is through their social networks. Focusing on dairy consumers in India, we present evidence of peer effects in consumers’ attitudes toward various food safety attributes as well as food safety practices. Unobserved individual heterogeneities are crucial confounders in the identification of social (endogenous) effects. Our identification is based on exploiting within-consumer variation across different aspects of attitude (or practices) related to food safety.
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spelling CGSpace1499592025-11-06T07:10:41Z Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India Chandra, Raj Munasib, Abdul Roy, Devesh Sonkar, Vinay Kumar dairies milk health food safety econometric models food consumption Food safety is an integral part of food security. One of the ways of ensuring food safety is through demand pull by consumers, which depends on the information available to them. One of the possible ways in which information is available to consumers is through their social networks. Focusing on dairy consumers in India, we present evidence of peer effects in consumers’ attitudes toward various food safety attributes as well as food safety practices. Unobserved individual heterogeneities are crucial confounders in the identification of social (endogenous) effects. Our identification is based on exploiting within-consumer variation across different aspects of attitude (or practices) related to food safety. 2015-06-19 2024-08-01T02:50:20Z 2024-08-01T02:50:20Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149959 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149707 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Chandra, Raj; Munasib, Abdul; Roy, Devesh and Sonkar, Vinay Kumar. 2015. Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1445. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149959
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food safety
econometric models
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Chandra, Raj
Munasib, Abdul
Roy, Devesh
Sonkar, Vinay Kumar
Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India
title Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India
title_full Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India
title_fullStr Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India
title_full_unstemmed Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India
title_short Peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety: findings from the study of dairy consumers in India
title_sort peer effects in the valuation of attributes and practices for food safety findings from the study of dairy consumers in india
topic dairies
milk
health
food safety
econometric models
food consumption
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