The Journal of Consumer Affairs articles from December 1999

The Journal of Consumer Affairs archives from December 1999

Consumer Satisfaction with a Managed Health Care Plan.
December 22, 1999... This study estimates the effects of four categories of variables hypothesized to influence patient satisfaction with a managed care health benefits plan. Ordinal probit is used to include the full spectrum of information available on the...

Consumer Preferences for Health Care Reform Options.
December 22, 1999... This study uses the 1992 Health and Retirement Study to examine consumer preferences for four health care reform options: tax-financed national health insurance, personally subsidized Medicare extensions, publicly subsidized nursing home...

Consumer Risk Perception Profiles Regarding Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rbGH).
December 22, 1999... This study examines individual differences in risk perception typologies, specifically for recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH). Results indicate diverse consumer profiles across risk perception categories. Awareness of rbGH is...

Do the Poor Pay More for Food? An Analysis of Grocery Store Availability and Food Price Disparities.
December 22, 1999... Do the poor pay more for food? To answer this question, this study was conducted to provide an empirical analysis of grocery store access and prices across inner city and suburban communities within the Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan...

The Role of Qualifying Language on Consumer Perceptions of Environmental Claims.
December 22, 1999... A copy-test of seven enviromnental claims on aerosol packages shows that consumers interpret general, unqualified claims (e.g., environmentally friendly or ozone friendly) as meaning the product is safe for the environment in both an absolute...

Factors that Influence Adolescents to Smoke.
December 22, 1999... Predictor variables previously examined in separate studies (prior beliefs, peer pressure, family smoking, advertising, and antismoking information) were combined in a single study, surveying 246 adolescents. The variables were round to be...

A Life-Course Approach to Measuring Household Wealth.
December 22, 1999... This paper illustrates how to measure per-period wealth and compares per-period wealth to more traditional measures, such as current net worth (current assets minus current liabilities). Per-period wealth differs from net worth in two major...

The Hierarchy of Consumer Participation and Patterns of Economic, Social, and Political Participation [1].
December 22, 1999... This article examines relationships between the hierarchy of consumer participation and propensities for general political and community participation. The results of an empirical study reveal how patterns of participation, knowledge seeking,...

Linking Consumer and Lender Perspectives in Home Buying: a Transaction Price Analysis.
December 22, 1999... The linkage between consumer and lender perspectives in home buying is explored. The realized transaction price in the home buying exchange is used to conceptualize this association. A framework for modeling the home purchase decision from the...

Handbook of Marketing Scales.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Bearden, William O. and Richard G. Netemeyer. 1999. Handbook of Marketing Scales, 2nd ed., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 537 pp., $75. The first edition of the Handbook was published in 1993 and reviewed in The Journal of Consumer...

Encyclopedia of the Consumer Movement.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Brobeck, Stephen, ed. 1997. Encyclopedia of the Consumer Movement, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, xxxii + 659 pp., $99.50. Editor Stephen Brobeck and his associate editors Robert N. Mayer and Robert O. Herrmann are to be commended for their...

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management and Marketing.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Cabell, David W. E., ed. 1997. Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management and Marketing, Beaumont, Texas: Cabell Publishing Company, 1,961 pp., $89.95. This directory (in three volumes) has the stated objective of helping...

Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice and Global Stewardship.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Crocker, David A. and Toby Linden, eds. 1998. Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice and Global Stewardship, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 585 Pp., $80.00 ($25.95 paper). Consumption is a hot topic in many fields right now from...

How Advertising Works: The Role of Research.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Jones, John Philip, ed. 1998. How Advertising Works: The Role of Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 358 pp., $68 ($32 paper). How Advertising Works contains twenty-nine chapters, some original, some reprints, fifteen written...

A Manual for Writers of Term papers, Theses, and Dissertations.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Turabian, Kate L. 1996. A Manual for Writers of Term papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 308 pp. Turabian's book functions just as the title professes--as a manual to be used by those...