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300

Overview

Rodolfo M. Nayga is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily spans economics, marketing, public health, and plant science, demonstrating an interdisciplinary approach within the agricultural and applied economics domain.

The scientist's recent published papers include:

  • The association between food insecurity and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, BMC Public Health)
  • Impact of Covid-19 on Household Food Waste: The Case of Italy (2020, Frontiers in Nutrition)
  • Labor Issues in the Food Supply Chain Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy)
  • Sustainability-Related Food Labels (2020, Annual Review of Resource Economics)
  • On the stability of risk and time preferences amid the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, Experimental Economics)

Frequent coauthors in Nayga's work include:

  • Michael R. Thomsen
  • Di Fang
  • Andreas C. Drichoutis
  • Marco A. Palma
  • Grant West

Publication venues where Nayga has contributed extensively are:

  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Food Quality and Preference
  • Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

Their research covers a broad range of interconnected fields and subfields, involving economics and econometrics, marketing, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as plant science.

Main topics central to their research activity include:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Consumers' Use of Nutritional Labels: A Review of Research Studies and Issues

    Andreas C. Drichoutis;Panagiotis Lazaridis;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • Consumers' willingness to pay for organic chicken breast: Evidence from choice experiment

    Ellen J. Van Loo;Vincenzina Caputo;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Jean Francois Meullenet

  • Nutrition knowledge and consumer use of nutritional food labels

    Andreas C. Drichoutis;Panagiotis Lazaridis;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • Consumers’ valuation of sustainability labels on meat

    Ellen J. Van Loo;Vincenzina Caputo;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Wim Verbeke

  • Sustainability labels on coffee: Consumer preferences, willingness-to-pay and visual attention to attributes

    Ellen J. Van Loo;Vincenzina Caputo;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Han Seok Seo

  • Consumers' valuation of food quality labels: The case of the European geographic indication and organic farming labels

    Maria Carmela Aprile;Vincenzina Caputo;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • The Demand for Food Away from Home: Full-Service or Fast Food?

    Hayden Stewart;Noel Blisard;Sanjib Bhuyan;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • The Effect of Food Label Use on Nutrient Intakes: An Endogenous Switching Regression Analysis

    Sung Yong Kim;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Oral Capps

  • Effect of distance of transportation on willingness to pay for food

    Carola Grebitus;Jayson L. Lusk;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • The association between food insecurity and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Di Fang;Michael R. Thomsen;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • Consumers’ Preferences and Attitudes Toward Local Food Products

    Maria Carmela Aprile;Vincenzina Caputo;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • Determinants of Consumers' Use of Nutritional Information on Food Packages

    Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • European consumer preferences for beef with nutrition and health claims: A multi-country investigation using discrete choice experiments

    Lynn Van Wezemael;Vincenzina Caputo;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Rodolfo M. Nayga;George Chryssochoidis

  • Effect of organic poultry purchase frequency on consumer attitudes toward organic poultry meat

    Ellen Van Loo;Vincenzina Caputo;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Jean Francois Meullenet

  • CRISPR versus GMOs: Public acceptance and valuation

    Aaron M. Shew;L. Lanier Nalley;Heather A. Snell;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • Consumers' Use of Nutritional Labels While Food Shopping and At Home

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  • On the Use of Honesty Priming Tasks to Mitigate Hypothetical Bias in Choice Experiments

    Tiziana de-Magistris;Azucena Gracia;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • Consumers' valuation of nutritional information: A choice experiment study

    Azucena Gracia;Maria L. Loureiro;Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • Food miles or carbon emissions? Exploring labelling preference for food transport footprint with a stated choice study

    Vincenzina Caputo;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Riccardo Scarpa;Riccardo Scarpa

  • Sociodemographic Influences on Consumer Concern for Food Safety: The Case of Irradiation, Antibiotics, Hormones, and Pesticides

    Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • Schooling, health knowledge and obesity

    Rodolfo M. Nayga

  • A theoretical and empirical investigation of nutritional label use.

    Andreas C. Drichoutis;Panagiotis Lazaridis;Rodolfo M. Nayga;Maria Kapsokefalou

  • A cold chain network for food exports to developing countries

    Victoria Salin;Rodolfo M. Nayga

Frequent Co-Authors

Oral Capps
Oral Capps Texas A&M University
Jayson L. Lusk
Jayson L. Lusk Oklahoma State University
Maria L. Loureiro
Maria L. Loureiro University of Santiago de Compostela
Riccardo Scarpa
Riccardo Scarpa Durham University
Wim Verbeke
Wim Verbeke Ghent University
Wuyang Hu
Wuyang Hu The Ohio State University
Jose Maria Gil
Jose Maria Gil Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Jutta Roosen
Jutta Roosen Technical University of Munich
Steven T. Yen
Steven T. Yen National Taiwan University
Steven C. Ricke
Steven C. Ricke University of Wisconsin–Madison

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