Cet article étudie l’effet des prix de vingt-trois catégories d’aliments sur la distribution de l’indice de masse corporelle (IMC) de la population adulte française, à l’aide des données de scanner du panel de ménages TNS-WorldPanel. Les résultats de régressions quantiles...

In this paper we study household purchase behaviour of storable food products. An inventory model is developed in which the household chooses an optimal stock level of the product. Storage of the product is costly, there is a fixed cost per purchase occasion, and the market price is sometimes...

This paper contributes to the debate over the effectiveness of education policies in reducing overall health inequalities as compared to public health actions directed at the less-educated. Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regressions are used to decompose the contribution of education to the...

The public-health community views the mandatory labelling and taxation of fat as promising tools to control the growth of food-related chronic disease. This paper is the first to propose an ex ante evaluation of these two policy options in an oligopolistic setting with differentiated products...

Entretien avec Fabrice Etilé, auteur de l'ouvrage "Obésité : santé publique et populisme alimentaire" paru aux Editions Rue d'Ulm, 2013, 124 pages.

Ce mémoire en vue de l’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches examine les rapports entre l’analyse économique des consommations dites ‘à risques‘ et les politiques publiques visant à les réguler. Il s’agit plus spécifiquement de comprendre les difficultés de l'économie...

Dans le cadre de l'élaboration du Programme national de l'alimentation (PNA), l’INRA a réalisé, à la demande du ministère de l'alimentation, de l'agriculture et de la pêche, une expertise sur les pratiques et comportements alimentaires en France. Ce rapport présente un état des...

For most consumers, Corporate Social Responsibility is a credence attribute of products, which can be signaled either through a label certified by a third party, or through unsubstantiated claims used as part of a brand building strategy. These claims might be, in theory, self-regulated by...

Can social interactions be used to favor the consumption of fair-trade products? Social interactions can alter purchase behaviors by triggering either self-image concerns (when one observes others' decisions without being observed) or social-image concerns (when everybody observes everyone). A...