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Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index
Powell, Lisa M. - 2009
statistically significantly related to a higher body mass index (BMI) percentile ranking among children with greater effects among … low-income children: fruit and vegetable price elasticity for BMI is estimated to be 0.25 for the full sample and 0 ….60 among low-income children. Fast food prices are statistically significantly related to child weight only in cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463603
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Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index
Powell, Lisa M. - 2010
statistically significantly related to a higher body mass index (BMI) percentile ranking among children with greater effects among … low-income children: fruit and vegetable price elasticity for BMI is estimated to be 0.25 for the full sample and 0 ….60 among low-income children. Fast food prices are statistically significantly related to child weight only in cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152565
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The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States
Meltzer, David O. - 2009
Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially "fast food", has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several decades. Because the real minimum wage in the United States has declined by as much as half over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463164
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The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States
Meltzer, David - 2010
Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially "fast food", has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several decades. Because the real minimum wage in the United States has declined by as much as half over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150364
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Studying the child obesity epidemic with natural experiment
Sandy, Robert; Liu, Gilbert; Ottensmann, John; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848907
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Fast Food Prices, Obesity, and the Minimum Wage
Cotti, Chad D.; Tefft, Nathan - 2014
Recent proposals argue that a fast food tax may be an effective policy lever for reducing population weight. Although there is growing evidence for a negative association between fast food prices and weight among adolescents, less is known about adults. That any measured relationship to date is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179828
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Structural relationship between taste, price fairness, and repurchase intention of fast food : moderating effect of healthiness
Moon, Joonho; Ji, Yunho - In: Global business and finance review 28 (2023) 5, pp. 109-121
Purpose: The aim of this research is to explore the structural relationship between taste, price fairness, healthiness, and repurchase intention. Healthiness is the moderator when taste and price fairness impacts on repurchase intention. The research subject is McDonald's given the market share...
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Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare
Courtemanche, Charles - 2020
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838462
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Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare
Courtemanche, Charles - 2020
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838983
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Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare
Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2020
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482049