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View article: A systematic review on the impact of Artificial Intelligence in the agri-food supply chain
A systematic review on the impact of Artificial Intelligence in the agri-food supply chain Open
View article: Behavioral and Economic Interventions: A Path to Improved Dietary Behaviors
Behavioral and Economic Interventions: A Path to Improved Dietary Behaviors Open
This narrative review provides a summary and critical discussion of the effectiveness of behavioral and economic interventions in promoting healthier eating habits. While financial incentives alter food choices through changes in prices an…
View article: Visual formats in risk preference elicitation: What catches the eye?
Visual formats in risk preference elicitation: What catches the eye? Open
We explore the effect of lottery presentation formats on elicitation of risk preferences using a popular probability varying task (Holt & Laury. The American Economic Review 92 (5), 1644–1655. 2002) and a payoff-varying task (Drichoutis & …
View article: The Effect of Cognitive Load on Economic Decision-Making Under Scarcity
The Effect of Cognitive Load on Economic Decision-Making Under Scarcity Open
View article: Challenges and barriers to WIC participation vary by participation status and language: Findings from focus groups in Missouri
Challenges and barriers to WIC participation vary by participation status and language: Findings from focus groups in Missouri Open
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is one of the largest federal food and nutrition program serving women and young children and has a low coverage rate of about 50 percent. There is no peer-r…
View article: Smart connected farms and networked farmers to improve crop production, sustainability and profitability
Smart connected farms and networked farmers to improve crop production, sustainability and profitability Open
To meet the grand challenges of agricultural production including climate change impacts on crop production, a tight integration of social science, technology and agriculture experts including farmers are needed. Rapid advances in informat…
View article: Improving consumer understanding of pesticide toxicity labels: experimental evidence
Improving consumer understanding of pesticide toxicity labels: experimental evidence Open
View article: Adoption of smart farm networks: a translational process to inform digital agricultural technologies
Adoption of smart farm networks: a translational process to inform digital agricultural technologies Open
Due to natural phenomena like global warming and climate change, agricultural production is increasingly faced with threats that transcend farm boundaries. Management practices at the landscape or community level are often required to adeq…
View article: The mental burden of stay-at-home order extensions during COVID-19
The mental burden of stay-at-home order extensions during COVID-19 Open
View article: AIIRA: AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture
AIIRA: AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture Open
AIIRA seeks to transform agriculture by creating a new AI‐driven framework for modeling plants at various agronomically relevant scales. We accomplish this by designing and deploying AI‐driven predictive models that fuse diverse data with …
View article: Pesticide labels do not effectively communicate toxicity risks
Pesticide labels do not effectively communicate toxicity risks Open
We show consumers inadvertently misperceive the risk associated with over-the-counter pesticides under the current labeling policy. Through an incentivized framed field experiment with eye tracking, we evaluate the effectiveness of existin…
View article: Smart Connected Farms and Networked Farmers to Tackle Climate Challenges Impacting Agricultural Production
Smart Connected Farms and Networked Farmers to Tackle Climate Challenges Impacting Agricultural Production Open
To meet the grand challenges of agricultural production including climate change impacts on crop production, a tight integration of social science, technology and agriculture experts including farmers are needed. There are rapid advances i…
View article: Do Consumers Support Beginning and Female Farmers?
Do Consumers Support Beginning and Female Farmers? Open
Beginning and female farmers are crucial for the succession of the next generation of farming. Despite policy interventions to provide access to credit, land, and capital, little is known about whether the end‐market consumers support the …
View article: Distributional effects of perceptional financial scarcity and abundance on food choices
Distributional effects of perceptional financial scarcity and abundance on food choices Open
This article enriches the attribute‐based choice literature in economics by providing compelling evidence that inducing perceptional financial scarcity and abundance affects consumer food choices. Our experiment shows that induced financia…
View article: The Instrumental Value of Calorie Information and its Effect on Food Choices
The Instrumental Value of Calorie Information and its Effect on Food Choices Open
View article: Occupational Disruptions Among Health Professional Graduate Students During COVID-19 Pandemic
Occupational Disruptions Among Health Professional Graduate Students During COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic created a global lockdown and restricted people from leaving their homes. The current study aimed to explore the impact of the pandemic on occupational engagement among health professional graduate students. A web-bas…
View article: Behavioral Ethics and the Incidence of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
Behavioral Ethics and the Incidence of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks Open
View article: Can episodic future thinking affect food choices?
Can episodic future thinking affect food choices? Open
View article: Grocery Shopping Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Grocery Shopping Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
Considering the temporary closure of many food-away-from-home establishments, consumer expenditure on groceries during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased. While grocery shopping is an essential activity, not much is known about the dynami…
View article: Behavioral Ethics and the Incidence of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
Behavioral Ethics and the Incidence of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks Open
View article: The effect of food anticipation on cognitive function: An eye tracking study
The effect of food anticipation on cognitive function: An eye tracking study Open
By randomizing the order in which participants perform a cognitive test and a food choice task in a controlled experiment, we investigate whether cognitive capacity can be enhanced by the simple act of anticipating food intake. Our finding…
View article: PAY ME TO CHOOSE HEALTHY?
PAY ME TO CHOOSE HEALTHY? Open
View article: Food Anticipation Enhances Cognitive Ability of Overweight and Obese in the Presence of Hunger
Food Anticipation Enhances Cognitive Ability of Overweight and Obese in the Presence of Hunger Open
By randomizing the order in which participants perform a cognitive test and a food choice task in a controlled experiment, we show that overweight and obese participants exhibit an anticipatory food reward effect. Eye tracking data reveale…
View article: Food Anticipation Enhances Cognitive Ability of Overweight and Obese in the Presence of Hunger
Food Anticipation Enhances Cognitive Ability of Overweight and Obese in the Presence of Hunger Open
Experimental Economics, Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis, Behavioral & Institutional Economics
View article: Self-control: Knowledge or perishable resource?
Self-control: Knowledge or perishable resource? Open
The self-control literature suggests two main short-run models with contradictory predictions. By perceiving self-control as a knowledge or perishable resource, those models report a positive and negative impact, respectively, of an initia…
View article: Testing the Consistency of Preferences in Discrete Choice Experiments: An Eye Tracking Study
Testing the Consistency of Preferences in Discrete Choice Experiments: An Eye Tracking Study Open
Although past research has tried to refine stated preferences elicited under discrete choice experiments (DCEs) by using methods to mitigate the hypothetical bias problem, little has been done to explore the consistency of preferences in r…
View article: The Effects of Self-Control on Subsequent Purchasing Decisions
The Effects of Self-Control on Subsequent Purchasing Decisions Open
The effect of self-control on individual behavior has long been a subject of debate. The psychology literature has advanced three theories to explain self-control. However, those theories carry contradictory predictions as they were restri…
View article: Buying Your Way into a Healthier Lifestyle: A Latent Class Analysis of Healthy Food Purchases
Buying Your Way into a Healthier Lifestyle: A Latent Class Analysis of Healthy Food Purchases Open
A non-hypothetical second-price Vickrey auction was conducted to elicit consumer preferences and willingness to pay for vegetable attributes, including production technique, origin, taste, and health benefits. Using a Latent Class Analysis…