TY - JOUR
T1 - A note on modelling household food waste behaviour
AU - Lusk, Jayson L.
AU - Ellison, Brenna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/9/20
Y1 - 2017/9/20
N2 - Food waste is increasingly recognized as a global challenge, with both public and private efforts aimed at reducing food waste from farm to fork. However, analyses of food waste often fail to treat the problem as an economic phenomenon, where consumers’ utility maximizing decisions result in discarded food. In an effort to guide future research, this article presents a conceptual model of household food waste, showing that decisions to discard food depend on food prices and wage and nonwage income.
AB - Food waste is increasingly recognized as a global challenge, with both public and private efforts aimed at reducing food waste from farm to fork. However, analyses of food waste often fail to treat the problem as an economic phenomenon, where consumers’ utility maximizing decisions result in discarded food. In an effort to guide future research, this article presents a conceptual model of household food waste, showing that decisions to discard food depend on food prices and wage and nonwage income.
KW - Food waste
KW - consumer preferences
KW - household production model
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U2 - 10.1080/13504851.2016.1265070
DO - 10.1080/13504851.2016.1265070
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85002406525
SN - 1350-4851
VL - 24
SP - 1199
EP - 1202
JO - Applied Economics Letters
JF - Applied Economics Letters
IS - 16
ER -