With the advent of e-commerce, opportunities have arisen for students to obtain course textbooks from sources other than the traditional campus bookstore(s). This research seeks to understand the factors motivating students to select e-commerce or traditional vendors for their textbook purchases. It surveys student perceptions of e-commerce textbook purchases from the perspectives of product pe...

The supplement to the September 2012 issue of Medical Care [1] focuses on the development and evaluation of new questions, or "item sets," for use with the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) surveys. The supplement is dedicated to the late Chuck Darby, who was a founding father of CAHPS. All 12 articles are freely available at: http://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcar...

purpose- the aim of this essay is to attempt to explain the impact of religion and family structure on consumer decision-making style within a muslim country. this paper wants to demonstrate how and why husbands/wives with eastern culture and islamic norms use different decision-making styles. design/methodology/approach- literature reviews on consumer decision-making, religion and family struc...

Meaghan Duetsch is an economist in the Branch of Information and Analysis, Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics. MEAGHAN DUETSCH Do single women spend their money differently than single men do? If so, can their spending differences be attributed to differences in characteristics between the two groups? In addition, have the spending patterns of single men and si...

Mobile technologies enable marketers to target consumers by time and location. This study builds on a large-scale randomized experiment of short message service (SMS) sent to 12,265 mobile users. We draw on the contextual marketing theory to hypothesize how different combinations of mobile targeting determine consumer responses to mobile promotions. We identify that temporal targeting and geogr...

The consumer satisfaction literature has not, for the most part, integrated individual values into the product evaluation process. Yet a comprehensive understanding of consumer satisfaction can best be attained by including both consumer and product factors. To demonstrate the usefulness of including individual values, this research focuses on one consumer value, namely, materialism. The author...

this study examins effects of trade liberalization on the wage inequality between urban and rural labor by utilizing the data of micro-level households’ income and expenditures surveys and trade statistics over 2001-2011. the analysis is carried based on the heckscher–ohlin’s theory in international trade and baker’s taste discrimination theory at firms. we use quantile regression and ordinary ...

Electronic surveys have been the most obvious and most promising developments among the many changes occurring in survey environments. In our research during a few years, we encountered many changes in this field with both positive and negative characteristics. Our research has had two main purposes. Firstly, we have sought to clarify in the light of practical methodology what social and legal ...

BACKGROUND Americans devote more resources to health care than any other developed country, and yet they have worse health outcomes and less access. This creates a perfect set of opportunities for Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer advocacy and multimedia organization known for its focus on individual consumers in markets where significant amounts of misinformation is in play. Consumer Repo...