Professor Riccardo Scarpa's Outputs (4)

Individual preferences for food items within couples: validating choice experiments predictions with real purchases data (2024)
Journal Article
Franceschinis, C., Scarpa, R., Thiene, M., & Kessels, R. (online). Individual preferences for food items within couples: validating choice experiments predictions with real purchases data. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12600

Despite the popularity of choice experiments (CEs) for the valuation of environmental goods and services, some of its shortcomings have been only partially addressed by the literature. Among these, of particular saliency, are the hypothetical nature... Read More about Individual preferences for food items within couples: validating choice experiments predictions with real purchases data.

Nudging consumers' choices for niche milk: a real purchase experiment (2024)
Journal Article
Franceschinis, C., Scarpa, R., & Thiene, M. (2024). Nudging consumers' choices for niche milk: a real purchase experiment. Food Policy, 128, Article 102729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102729

Changing behaviours causing poor health is an ongoing global health challenge that requires developing adequate food policies and strengthening their effectiveness. Policies based on nudging have become increasingly popular internationally, but the l... Read More about Nudging consumers' choices for niche milk: a real purchase experiment.

Stated preferences for new HIV prevention technologies among men who have sex with men in India: A discrete choice experiment (2024)
Journal Article
Cameron, M. P., Newman, P. A., Chakrapani, V., Shunmugam, M., Roungprakhon, S., Rawat, S., Baruah, D., Nelson, R., Tepjan, S., & Scarpa, R. (2024). Stated preferences for new HIV prevention technologies among men who have sex with men in India: A discrete choice experiment. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0289396. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289396

Introduction: India has the second largest HIV epidemic in the world. Despite successes in epidemic control at the population level, a concentrated epidemic persists among gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM). However, India lags in implemen... Read More about Stated preferences for new HIV prevention technologies among men who have sex with men in India: A discrete choice experiment.

A nonparametric random effects model for the valuation of forest recreation services: An application to forest sites in Tuscany, Italy (2024)
Journal Article
Pellegrini, A., Lombardi, G. V., Scarpa, R., & Rose, J. M. (2024). A nonparametric random effects model for the valuation of forest recreation services: An application to forest sites in Tuscany, Italy. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 68(2), 229-252. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12557

This study assesses individuals' preferences for the use of forest sites for recreational purposes by means of the logit‐mixed logit (LML) model. The appeal of the LML is that the analyst does not need to assume any specific functional form for the m... Read More about A nonparametric random effects model for the valuation of forest recreation services: An application to forest sites in Tuscany, Italy.