The Journal of Consumer Affairs articles from June 1999

The Journal of Consumer Affairs archives from June 1999

The Structure of S[tilde{a}]o Paulo Street Markets: Evolving Patterns of Retail Institutions.
June 22, 1999... Development in emerging economies leads to a cohabitation of traditional and modern forms of retailing. This diversity allows for centuries' old consumer behavior patterns to continue along with new options. The street markets or Feira Livres...

Constraints, Domain Conditions, and Well-Being: Evidence from Poland during the Transformation.
June 22, 1999... The relationships among the recent changes in socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the household, domain conditions (objective well-being), and the household members' assessment of their situation (subjective well-being) are...

Saving Practices of New Canadians from Vietnam and Laos.
June 22, 1999... This study is the first to focus on saving patterns of a growing group of newcomers to Canada--people of Asian origin who arrived as refugees. Data are from personal interviews with 649 Boat People (Chinese Vietnamese, ethnic Vietnamese, and...

Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Food Safety in Taiwan: A Binary-Ordinal Probit Model of Analysis.
June 22, 1999... A probit model for whether or not consumers are willing to pay a premium for hydroponically grown vegetables (HGV) is estimated jointly with an ordered probit model analyzing the magnitude of such premiums for consumers who would pay them....

Alternative Measures of Health Information and Demand for Fats and Oils in Japan.
June 22, 1999... This study investigates the major factors affecting the demand for fats and oils under the possible influence of health information on fat and cholesterol in Japan. The fat and cholesterol information indexes based on diminishing effect schemes...

Food Shopping Profiles of Career-oriented, Income-oriented, and At-home Wives.
June 22, 1999... The purpose of this study was to develop comprehensive food shopping profiles of career-oriented, income-oriented, and at-home wives. Discriminant analysis revealed distinct profiles for the career-oriented and at-home wives. However,...

Budget Allocation Patterns of African Americans.
June 22, 1999... The Consumer Expenditure Survey (1980-1992), Consumer Price Index (1980-1992), and ACCRA Cost of Living Index (1990) are used to construct annual household expenditure data from 1980 to 1992 to compare household budget allocation patterns of...

Product Knowledge and Product Involvement as Moderators of the Effects of Information on Purchase Decisions: A Case Study Using the Perfect Information Frontier Approach.
June 22, 1999... This study ascertains the extent to which consumers achieve highest value-for-money under different conditions. Perfect Information Frontier Approach is applied to examine the influences of providing consumers with information on their purchase...

Why Consumers Choose Managed Mutual Funds Over Index Funds: Hypotheses from Consumer Behavior.
June 22, 1999... Much evidence exists which suggests that the vast majority of equity mutual fund managers do not possess differential information (or skills) which allow them to achieve above average market returns for their investors. Thus, when investors pay...

Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Baker, Dean, editor, Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998, 190 pp., $50.95 ($19.95 paper). Throughout this century the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has been researching...

Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Blau, Francine D. and Ehrenberg, Ronald G., Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997, 301 pp., $42.50. Initial versions of the papers in this book were presented at a conference held at Cornell...

Failure and Forgiveness: Rebalancing the Bankruptcy System.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Gross, Karen, Failure and Forgiveness: Rebalancing the Bankruptcy System, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, 302 pp. Karen Gross, a New York Law School professor, was a key player in the recent Bankruptcy Review Commission process...

Managing Change with Business Process Simulation.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Profozich, David M., Managing Change with Business Process Simulation, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR, 1998. To remain competitive, corporation owners must throw out old notions about how businesses should be organized and run...

Expenditures of Older Americans.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Rubin, Rose M. and Michael L. Nieswiadomy, Expenditures of Older Americans, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997, 176 PP., $55.00. Expenditures of Older Americans examines expenditure patterns of elderly Americans. This book is a...

Private Medicine and Public Health: Profit, Politics, and Prejudice in the American Health Care Enterprise.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Weiss, Lawrence D., Private Medicine and Public Health: Profit, Politics, and Prejudice in the American Health Care Enterprise, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, 220 pp., $21.00 (paper). Lawrence Weiss's book is useful, but probably not as...