IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea26/404313.html

Understanding the Gap Between Pet Food Buyer's Preferences and Purchasing Behavior in the U.S.: Implications for Product and Marketing Strategies

Author

Listed:
  • Shanoyan, Aleksan
  • Bergtold, Jason
  • Guazzelli Pezzali, Julia
  • Hobbs, Lonnie
  • Rabiee, Elaheh

Abstract

No abstract is available for this item.

Suggested Citation

  • Shanoyan, Aleksan & Bergtold, Jason & Guazzelli Pezzali, Julia & Hobbs, Lonnie & Rabiee, Elaheh, 2026. "Understanding the Gap Between Pet Food Buyer's Preferences and Purchasing Behavior in the U.S.: Implications for Product and Marketing Strategies," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri 404313, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea26:404313
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404313
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/404313/files/171962_194919_115232_AAEA2026_manuscript_gap.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.404313?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Beshears, John & Choi, James J. & Laibson, David & Madrian, Brigitte C., 2008. "How are preferences revealed?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(8-9), pages 1787-1794, August.
    2. Cliona Ni Mhurchu & Helen Eyles & Chris Schilling & Qing Yang & William Kaye-Blake & Murat Genç & Tony Blakely, 2013. "Food Prices and Consumer Demand: Differences across Income Levels and Ethnic Groups," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(10), pages 1-12, October.
    3. Tong Hu & Abdullah Al Mamun & Mohammad Nurul Hassan Reza & Mengling Wu & Qing Yang, 2024. "Examining consumers’ willingness to pay premium price for organic food," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, December.
    4. Pat Auger & Timothy Devinney, 2007. "Do What Consumers Say Matter? The Misalignment of Preferences with Unconstrained Ethical Intentions," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 76(4), pages 361-383, December.
    5. Beshears, John & Choi, James J. & Laibson, David & Madrian, Brigitte C., 2008. "How are preferences revealed?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(8-9), pages 1787-1794, August.
    6. Hobbs, Lonnie & Anderson, Andrew, 2025. "Assessing the Implicit Prices of Health and Wellness Product Attributes in Pet Food: A Hedonic Analysis Approach," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 57(2), pages 321-339, May.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Robert Sugden, 2022. "Debiasing or regularisation? Two interpretations of the concept of ‘true preference’ in behavioural economics," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 92(3), pages 765-784, April.
    2. Lisa A. Robinson & James K. Hammitt, 2011. "Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Analysis," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 31(9), pages 1408-1422, September.
    3. Leonhard K. Lades & Liam Delaney, 2024. "Self-control failures, as judged by themselves," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-14, December.
    4. Daly, Michael & Delaney, Liam & Doyle, Orla & Fitzpatrick, Nick & O'Farrelly, Christine, 2014. "Can Early Intervention Policies Improve Well-being? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial," 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon TN 2015-03, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    5. van Hoorn, André, 2018. "Is the happiness approach to measuring preferences valid?," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 53-65.
    6. Ghosal, Sayantan & Dalton, Patricio, 2013. "Characterizing Behavioral Decisions with Choice Data," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 107, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    7. Bernal, Noelia & Olivera, Javier, 2020. "Choice of pension management fees and effects on pension wealth," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 176(C), pages 539-568.
    8. Malte Dold, 2025. "Endogenous preferences: a challenge to constitutional political economy’s normative foundation?," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 36(4), pages 424-443, December.
    9. Daniel J. Benjamin & Mark Alan Fontana & Miles Kimball, 2020. "Reconsidering Risk Aversion," GRU Working Paper Series GRU_2020_026, City University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics and Finance, Global Research Unit.
    10. Henrik Serup Christensen & Lauri Rapeli, 2021. "Immediate rewards or delayed gratification? A conjoint survey experiment of the public’s policy preferences," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 54(1), pages 63-94, March.
    11. Alserda, Gosse A.G. & Dellaert, Benedict G.C. & Swinkels, Laurens & van der Lecq, Fieke S.G., 2019. "Individual pension risk preference elicitation and collective asset allocation with heterogeneity," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 101(C), pages 206-225.
    12. Hasan-Basri, Bakti & Yahya, Nurul & Musa, Rusmani, 2013. "Status Quo Effect and Preferences Uncertainty: A Heteroscedastic Extreme Value (HEV) Model," Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, vol. 47(1), pages 163-172.
    13. Hajdu, Tamás & Hajdu, Gábor, 2011. "A hasznosság és a relatív jövedelem kapcsolatának vizsgálata magyar adatok segítségével [Examining the relation of utility and relative income using Hungarian data]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(1), pages 56-73.
    14. Mart N Leites & Gonzalo Salas, 2025. "Intergenerational Transmission of Preferences for Redistribution: The Case of Uruguay," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 252(1), pages 73-112, March.
    15. Gosse A.G. Alserda & Jacob A. Bikker & Fieke S.G. Van Der Lecq, 2018. "X-efficiency and economies of scale in pension fund administration and investment," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(48), pages 5164-5188, October.
    16. Yildiz, Özgür, 2014. "Lehren aus der Verhaltensökonomik für die Gestaltung umweltpolitischer Maßnahmen [Lessons from behavioral economics for the design of environmental policy measures]," MPRA Paper 59360, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    17. Orla Doyle & Liam Delaney & Christine O'Farrelly & Nick Fitzpatrick & Michael Daly, 2015. "Can Early Intervention Improve Maternal Well-being? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial," Working Papers 2015-015, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    18. Matthew Shapiro & Joseph Briggs & Chris Tonetti & Andrew Caplin & John Ameriks, 2016. "Late-in-Life Risks and the Under-Insurance Puzzle," 2016 Meeting Papers 241, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    19. Petr Krautwurm & Philipp C. Wichardt & Philipp Christoph Wichardt, 2025. "Preferences, Goals, and Implications for Paternalism," CESifo Working Paper Series 11672, CESifo.
    20. Joseph P. Newhouse, 2023. "The Design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: A Retrospective," Evaluation Review, , vol. 47(1), pages 39-70, February.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea26:404313. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.