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Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Subsidizing Milk: Beverage Consumption, Nutrition, and Obesity among US Children
Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A.; Lee, Jonq-Ying - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
revenue to address obesity-related issues. A related concern is that children’s intake of SSBs, a third that of milk … a day among children, lowering the obesity rate from 16.1 percent to 13.4 percent and the overweight rate from 32 … decrease their calorie intake (21 calories a day) and increase their calcium intake, but the overweight and obesity rates would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368334
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THE DEMAND FOR FOOD QUALITY IN RUSSIA AND ITS LINKAGE TO OBESITY
Staudigel, Matthias - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
This study analyses whether Russian households differ in their choice of food quality when they differ in their number of overweight and obese members. Using survey data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for the years 1995-2005, households are classified into three weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368320
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THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF A FISCAL FOOD POLICY
Salois, Matthew J.; Tiffin, J. Richard - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
This paper examines the health effects of a fiscal food policy based on a combination of fat taxes and thin subsidies. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of food items while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and vegetable items. The policy is designed to be revenue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368325
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Observable and unobservable determinants of a healthy diet in Russia: A structural equation approach
Burggraf, Christine; Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
The Russian Federation is facing crucial dietary problems which burden the health care sector to an increasing degree. In order to correct this trend explanations for the observed mostly unhealthy diets are needed. Therefore the main target of this study was to find evidence about the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368346
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OBESITY AND HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS
Richards, Timothy J.; Hamilton, Stephen F.; Pofahl, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
health. Our results show that discount functions are quasi-hyperbolic in shape, and that obesity and drinking are positively … related to the discount rate. Anti-obesity policy, therefore, would be best directed to informing individuals as to the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368362
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Take off the heater: Utility effect and food environment effect in food consumption decisions
Lombardini-Riipinen, Chiara; Lankoski, Leena - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
In this paper, we describe individual food consumption decisions as driven by a utility effect and a food environment effect. To outline the utility effect, we first develop a new theoretical model of individual food consumption. Next, we introduce the food environment effect by showing how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368307
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Health impact assessment of folate biofortified rice in China
De Steur, Hans; Gellynck, Xavier; Storoshenko, Sergei; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
Introduction: As folate deficiency is mainly caused by the dependency on folate-poor staple crops, such as rice, the implementation of rice with a high level of natural folate could be a successful pro-rural and pro-poor intervention strategy to reduce folate deficiencies in China, where about...
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CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND FUTURE FOOD CONSUMPTION PATTERNS
Valin, Hugo; Havlik, Petr; Mosnier, Aline; Obersteiner, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
Discussions on climate change increasingly emphasize the contribution of agricultural activities to anthropogenic greenhouse gases emissions. In this paper, we investigate from a supply to demand side perspective the stress between food demand and climate change challenges up until 2030. We...
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DIETARY EVOLUTION OVER TIME IN EUROPE, BETWEEN CYCLOPS AND PHAECIANS . AN OUTLOOK ON THE ROLE OF SUPPLY-SIDE FACTORS IN DRIVING CHANGES IN THE FOOD PATTERNS
Finardi, Corrado; Arfini, Filippo; Turrini, Aida - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
The present study intends to shed light, both from a descriptive and investigative point of view on the dietary evolution taking place in Europe during last 45 years, using secondary data from FAO FBS, which can cover the entire time span considered and allow for several extrapolation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368310
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DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY IN U.S. CONSUMER RESPONSIVENESS TO CARBONATED SOFT-DRINK MARKETING PRACTICES
Rhodes, Charles - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
Using three years of Nielson Homescan and advertising data from 16 major metropolitan areas across the U.S. to construct a panel data set that follows weekly consumer purchasing behavior, this paper investigates the impact of marketing activities on a representative cross-section of U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368311