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Are vegetable seed oils fueling the obesity epidemic?

Ransom, Tyler - 2024

I argue that increased consumption of vegetable seed oils high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fats has driven obesity in … the United States, a link overlooked in the economics literature. Obesity rates have closely tracked the level of seed …

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Food and nutrition security in Eurasia: evolution, shocks and policies

Burkitbayeva, Saule; Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Warrinnier, Nele - In: Russian journal of economics 6 (2020) 1, pp. 6-25

-nutrition to various forms of malnutrition and obesity, these countries face different challenges when it comes to food and …

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Food (di)lemmas : disentangling the Italian Local Food Policy narratives

Mazzocchi, Giampiero; Giarè, Francesca; Sardone, Roberta; … - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 78 (2023) 3, pp. 19-34

Recently, food-related policy initiatives have proliferated, such as food strategies, food plans, food councils, food districts and food communities, just to name the more relevant ones. Far from being systematically defined and logically systematized, these concepts often overlap or are used as...

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Food Policy Coherence and Integration : a review of adopted methodologies

Monticone, Francesca; Samoggia, Antonella - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 78 (2023) 3, pp. 35-49

Multiple scholars in the last two decades have called for a coherent and integrated approach to food policy to address the challenges of the current food systems. Food Policy Coherence and Integration (PCI) are both challenging, as food matters are addressed at more than one level of governance...

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Are Vegetable Seed Oils Fueling the Obesity Epidemic?

Ransom, Tyler - 2024

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Do Food Stamps Contribute to Obesity in Low-Income Women? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979

Fan, Maoyong - 2015

High prevalence of obesity in female Food Stamp Program (FSP) participants has led to the question of whether or not … estimates the effects of food stamp benefits on obesity, overweight and body mass index (BMI) of low-income women. Contrary to … previous results, we find little evidence that the FSP causes obesity, overweight or higher BMI. Our analysis differs from …

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Low-Cost Obesity Interventions : The Market for Foods

Finke, Michael S. - 2017

Obesity accounts for medical costs and lost productivity totaling more than $100 billion per year. Two important … economic factors have been forwarded to explain obesity trends. The first is that healthy, palatable foods are no longer …, convenient, high-calorie foods and the lack of a desire to eat a healthy diet may explain obesity trends. However, they imply …

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The Earned Income Tax Credit and food consumption patterns

McGranahan, Leslie; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - 2013

The Earned Income Tax Credit is unique among social programs in that benefits are not paid out evenly across the calendar year. We exploit this feature of the EITC to investigate how the credit influences the food expenditure patterns of eligible households. We find that eligible households...

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Taxing Sweets : Sweetener Input Tax or Final Consumption Tax?

Miao, Zhen; Beghin, John C.; Jensen, Helen H. - 2010

Policymakers are considering various policies to reduce obesity and its associated costs, including consumption taxes …

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Lessons learned and policy implications from 20 years of Swiss agricultural policy reforms : a review of policy evaluations

Huber, Robert; El Benni, Nadja; Finger, Robert - In: Bio-based and applied economics 13 (2024) 2, pp. 121-146

Learning from the experiences of other countries can support efforts to improve agricultural policies. Switzerland provides an interesting case because its policy is exceptionally targeted towards the establishment of sustainable production systems. We describe the history and the current state...

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