AULD, M. CHRISTOPHER; POWELL, LISA M. - In: Economica 76 (2009) 304, pp. 719-740
We present a simple microeconomic behavioral model showing that decreases in the price of energy-dense foods increase body weight if the price of obtaining a calorie from dense food is lower than that of less dense food. Estimates of the determinants of adolescent BMI suggest that the price of...