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I consumi alimentari
No full textContiene dati aggiornati al 2017 ed elaborazioni commentate sui consumi delle famiglie italiane ed emiliano-romagnole, anche con riferimento all'evoluzione degli stili di vita e dell'obesita
Seaside tourism and eco-labels: The economic impact of Blue Flags
No full textIn a period of rising competition and environmental concern, tourism destinations increasingly use signals that certify and communicate the quality provided in order to gain a competitive advantage over competitors. Given their aim of providing synthetized information on destinations, certifications particularly affect foreign tourists who suffer more from asymmetric information. This study considers the Blue Flag, one of the most popular eco-labels aiming at promoting seaside tourist destinations. The relationship between label achievement and inbound tourist flows is explored. Panel data techniques and highly geographical disaggregated data covering a rather long time span (2000–12) are used to compare the attractiveness of certified and non-certified Italian provinces. The empirical evidence suggests that current certification positively affects future foreign tourist decisions to visit the destination. Moreover, while the presence of at least one signal is effective in attracting tourists, no significant difference emerges among destinations with different signal intensity
Are Consumers More Willing to Invest in Luck During Recessions?
No full textWe use monthly data on gross expenditure on luck and skill games in Italy to investigate whether people react to recessions investing in activities based on fortune or ability. Luck game expenditure is volatile and positively correlated with unemployment in economic downturns. Naive consumers tend to consider luck games as a potential source of additional income during recessions. Skill game expenditure is persistent over time and uncorrelated with the unemployment rate, suggesting a more balanced attitude of skill consumers. This study provides evidence on the prevailing behavior and reaction of expert or naïve consumers when facing economic downturns
There is no such thing as a (gluten-)free lunch: Higher food prices and the cost for coeliac consumers
No full textA lifelong gluten-free diet is the only available treatment for coeliac disease at present. However, the high price of gluten-free substitute foods is likely to generate a welfare loss for consumers who drop gluten from their diet. Using original data on retail prices in four major UK supermarkets and consumption data from the UK Living Cost and Food Survey, we simulate the welfare change associated to a switch to the gluten-free diet. Within the "Bread and Cereals" category, retail price data show that the average price of gluten-free products is £1.12/100g relative to £ 0.59/100g of gluten-containing products. Our estimates indicate that on average in the UK coeliac consumers have to pay an extra £ 10 per week to maintain their utility levels prior to the dietary switch. This correspond to 29% of the weekly food budget. Results by income quartile are suggestive of regressive effects and the welfare loss for low-income consumers is estimated at 36% of their food budget compared to 24% of high-income consumers
I comportamenti alimentari in Emilia-Romagna: i risultati di una indagine demoscopica
No full textIl capitolo riporta e analizza i risultati di un'indagine demoscopica sui consumi alimentari svolta in collaborazione con la Regione Emilia-Romagna nel maggio 2006. L'analisi si concentra su comportamento e attitudini del consumatore, in particolare rispetto a qualità, sicurezza degli alimenti, nutrizione e fiducia. I dati sono presentati sia a livello regionale che provinciale
I consumi alimentari
No full textRapporto annuale di Unioncamere e Regione Emilia Romagna, assessorato all'agricoltura. Il capitolo analizza i dati Istat di prezzi al consumo, contabilità nazionale e dei consumi delle famiglie per esplorare le tendenze nei consumi alimentari e non
Do Target Groups Appreciate Being Targeted? An Exploration of Healthy Eating Policy Acceptance
Full text linkThe impact of healthy eating policies falls behind policy maker’s expectations.
Better targeting and stakeholder support should improve their effectiveness. The research aims
to identify whether a target group (the group impacted by the policy measure) is characterised
by higher acceptance levels or not. Acceptance among citizens from the target was compared
to a matching non-target group, based on data from an online survey on citizens’ support of
healthy eating policies conducted among 3003 adult respondents from five European countries
(Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Poland, UK). The policies explored were bans of advertising to
children or school vending machines, school meal regulations, education campaigns at schools
and workplaces, menu nutrition information and food labelling, price subsidies for healthy
food, and accessibility measures for the elderly. It was found that target groups showed more
support than others for four policies: parents were more supportive of vending machine bans in
schools and workers eating out at lunch of education campaigns at workplaces, food labelling
was more supported by those considering nutrition content in food purchase, and price
subsidies for healthy food more supported by respondents in financial difficulties. However,
parents were less supportive of school education campaigns, and the pattern of support through
the target group differed by country. It is concluded that members of the target group tend to,
but are not per se especially supportive of healthy eating policy measures concerning themselves
or their children, and there are great country differences. Acceptance of policies should
be surveyed per target group and country in advance of implementation. In the case of lack in
acceptance, further exploration of the barriers should be conducted so that the benefit of the policy can be more effectively communicated, assuming that this increases stakeholder
cooperation and favourable peer influence
Fat and green taxation, inequalities and consumer response
No full textFiscal measures promoting healthier food and drink baskets have been implemented in various countries, with highly heterogeneous policy designs and mixed outcomes. A common objection to taxing foods to improve health is the potential regressivity of the measure since the budget share spent on foods and drinks is higher for low-income households, but the counterobjection is that these households are more likely to adjust their food choice, hence gaining larger individual health benefits. The idea of carbon taxation to promote more sustainable consumption has recently gained attention, including a proposal to revisit value-added tax rates according to the environmental impact of a good. This opens the way to various issues, making it hard to predict the ultimate consumption, health and environmental outcomes of fiscal measures applied to food and drink baskets. Among these open research questions is the signaling impact of multiple fiscal measures, the information overload faced by consumers and the benefits from environmental taxation. This chapter reviews these and other issues, drawing from existing evidence
Breaking habits: The effect of the French vending machine ban on school snacking and sugar intakes
Full text linkThis paper estimates the effect of the 2005 vending machine ban in French secondary schools on nutrient intakes and on the frequency of morning snacking at school. Using data before and after the ban, and exploiting the discontinuity associated with the age-dependent exposure to the ban, we specify a difference-in-differences regression discontinuity design. Since the relationship between age-at-interview and school level is not precise, we introduce fuzziness in the model. We find that the ban has generated a 10 grams reduction in sugar intakes from morning snacks at school, and a significant reduction in the frequency of these morning snacks. However, we find no evidence that the intervention affects total daily intakes, and our results are suggestive of compensation effects
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