Welfare Effects of Food Miles Labels

Vincenzina Caputo; Achilleas Vassilopoulos; Rodolfo M. Nayga; Maurizio Canavari

doi:10.1111/joca.12009

Welfare Effects of Food Miles Labels

Vincenzina Caputo, Achilleas Vassilopoulos, Rodolfo M. Nayga, Maurizio Canavari

Department of Food and Resource Economics

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We assessed the consumer welfare effects of two generic food miles labels: "carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission" label and "time and number of kilometers" label. Using data from a choice experiment, our results generally suggest that a mandatory labeling policy for either type of label would have a positive welfare effect. However, a label informing consumers about the time and number of kilometers the food product has traveled provides greater positive welfare effects than a label informing consumers about the amount of CO₂ emission.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	311-327
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of Consumer Affairs
Volume	47
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12009
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Sociology and Political Science
Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)

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