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Non-Price Competition in the California Women, Infants, and Children Program.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Non-Price Competition in the California Women, Infants, and Children Program./
Author:	McLaughlin, Patrick Wade.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	123 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-04A(E).
Subject:	Agricultural economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3737002
ISBN:	9781339260716

Non-Price Competition in the California Women, Infants, and Children Program.
McLaughlin, Patrick Wade.

Non-Price Competition in the California Women, Infants, and Children Program. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 123 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2015.

Institutional characteristics of the food assistance component of the California Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants, and Children (California WIC Program) incentivizes food retailers serving the Program to compete in ways potentially beneficial to consumers and Program operations, including enhancing the quality of available food brands and improving food access. First, I model a WIC retailer who does not compete in price for WIC consumers who are perfectly price inelastic due to the nature of food benefits. A theoretical model of non-price competition hypothesizes that pure non-price competition in brands mimics price competition, whereby these retailers carry a higher variety and quality level of brands under intense spatial competition; and that retailers will either minimally or maximally differentiate in horizontal (e.g., physical) space. Second, I develop the concept of vendor attrition, committed by participants, as a behavioral measure of retailers' contribution to food access in the WIC Program. An empirical approach using a unique dataset on retailers' locations and brand offerings, as well as participants' food benefit redemption patterns, confirms that retailers compete in brands. Namely, retailers carry more and better brands in salient product categories when facing more competitors, which, in turn, reduces attrition and increases market share. The results also suggest that maximal horizontal differentiation prevails, allowing the retailers to minimize costly brand competition.

ISBN: 9781339260716Subjects--Topical Terms:

3172150
Agricultural economics.

Non-Price Competition in the California Women, Infants, and Children Program.
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