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Italian consumers’ income and food waste behavior
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Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights on the relationships between consumers’ income and household food waste behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: – Attitude toward food waste is a paradigmatic (economic) non-standard decision making. Based on behavioral economics concepts and empirical evidences, the study analyzes the frequency of household food waste and its main drivers with a focus on individual income. Through a panel of 1,403 Italian consumers, food waste behavior and its determinants are modeled for five food typologies using proportional odds models that adopt stepwise procedures and genetic algorithms. Findings: – Results suggest the existence of complex relationships between per capita income and household food waste behavior. When considering food typologies that include high value added products, this relation can be explained by an inverse U-shaped curve: mid-to-low income consumers purchase higher amounts of lower quality products and waste more food. Research limitations/implications: – The research highlights the importance of understanding the main socio-economic and behavioral determinants of household food waste, and the need for further researches. Practical implications: – The research motivates specific pricing, commercial and policy strategies as well as organizational technological, and educational solutions to prevent/reduce household food waste. Social implications: – Lower income class consumers show a greater attitude to waste certain food typologies. In turn, this implies that food waste can further worse economic inequality and relative poverty. Originality/value: – The study identifies different patterns of relationship among individual income and consumers’ food waste behavior, and describes the conditions that limit a household “Food Waste Kuznets Curve.”
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“Similarly, Setti et al. (2016) show a high degree of ethical concern related to food waste (86%).”
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“In turn, households that spend more money on groceries per person tend to produce more food waste per person (Parizeau et al., 2015;Setti et al., 2016).”
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“Setti et al. (2016) reveal that consumers who buy local products on a regular basis tend to significantly limit (up to 90%) the frequency of wasting vegetables.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Setti, M., Falasconi, L., Segrè, A., Cusano, I., & Vittuari, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Bologna (IT)
- Venue
- British Food Journal
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 2016-07-04
- Volume
- 118
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1731-1746
- ISSN
- 0007-070X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2474325137
- Semantic Scholar
- ab5db3c3d4d9315af63d9dcd97129e7a6cd14d07
- Cited by
- 145
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 8
- FWCI
- 16.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- British Food Journal (publishedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Keywords
- household food waste, consumer income, food waste behavior, Kuznets curve, socio-economic determinants, food quality, food waste reduction, relative poverty
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