Agricultural Biotechnology: A Comparison of Consumers' Preferences for Selected Policy Options |
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| Authors: | Diane McCann-Hiltz Michele Veeman Wiktor Adamowicz Wuyang Hu |
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| Institution: | Provincial Livestock Market Analyst;Professor, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta;Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta |
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| Abstract: | This paper reports on a study of consumers' preferences for regulatory policies that relate to food biotechnology. Data on consumers' choices of selected policy options were collected through a telephone survey of Alberta residents conducted in early 2000. Conditional and mixed logit models were developed and tested. These assess the influence of different socio-economic factors on respondents' choices of particular policy options and are used to estimate respondents' willingness to pay for two policy options that were the major focus of the study, specifically: |
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