This study examines the roles of cholesterol information and advertising in explaining consumption trends for fats and oils, focusing on butter. Results suggest increased consumer awareness of the health effects of blood cholesterol has contributed to the secular decline in butter consumption in Canada. Although consumers' responses to negative information appear to outweigh their responses to positive information, the industry advertising campaign launched in 1978 by the Dairy Bureau of Canada has had a positive effect on butter demand.
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search from AgEcon., Staff Paper No. 396, 29 pages; Adobe Acrobat PDF 192K bytes, The dynamics of cheese purchases is analyzed by estimating a series of econometric models of duration based on a
170 week household panel. Besides purchase quantity and price data, information with respect to coupon use and household demographic characteristics are used in a variety of models which build upon each other in terms of assumed distribution of interpurchase time, effect of previous purchases, role of demographic characteristics and effect of unobserved interpurchase time heterogeneity. Likelihood ratio tests clearly reject the null hypothesis that coupon use has no impact on cheese purchase timing.
Online from Farm Progress website. 6 pages., Describes a special event on the University of Minnesota campus involving free "moon milk" for students. "The warm, frothy milk-based beverage was described by Health magazine as 'a trendy new insomnia fighter...popping up all over social media, often in colorful hues'."
