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Estimating the Intrafamily Incidence of Health: Child Illness and Gender Inequality in Indonesian Households

Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1987

In this paper, we demonstrate the difficulties of identifying both the own- and cross-effects of health on the allocation of time within a household, and develop and implement a method for estimating the effects of infant morbidity on the differential allocation of time by other family members...

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Economics of Food and Safety: Risk, Information, and the Demand and Supply of Health

Falconi, Cesar; Roe, Terry L. - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1990

A model of expected utility maximization and a stochastic health production function are used to show how consumer's beliefs, the certainty of beliefs, and the presence of information affects demand for goods as they are driven by the demand for health. Then, it is shown that competitive markets...

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Food and Health: A European Perspective

Venturini, Luciano - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 2006

This paper addresses four issues which arise from increasing concerns about overweight and obesity in European … Americans, there is robust evidence that adult and childhood obesity rates tend to increase substantially in many European … countries. The second part of the paper surveys the recent theoretical literature on the economics of obesity. In particular, we …

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Feeding Southeast Minnesota: A Model to Estimate Food Expenditures and Quantities

Dietrich, Sadie M. - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 2013

This Plan B paper improves and expands on the work of Wang (2011). Using data from the Consumer Expenditure survey and the American Community Survey we estimate regional food expenditures for 19 food categories in Southeast Minnesota and the Twin Cities Metro. Wang's original research almost...

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Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 486

McCandless, Barbara J. - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1966

Expenditures for Meat, Poultry, and Fish by Upper Income Families in the Twin Cities

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Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 480

Burk, Marguerite C. - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1966

Food Expenditures By Minneapolis-St. Paul Families: Variations and Implications

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Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 508

Burke, Marguerite C. - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1968

A Brief Analysis of Postwar Changes in Food Expenditures

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Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 496

Thiele-Wittig, Maria; Burk, Marguerite C. - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1967

Food Shopping Practices of Upper Income Families in Minneapolis-St. Paul

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RECENT EVIDENCE CONCERNING HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIOR AND NUTRITION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Senauer, Benjamin - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1989

This paper reviews some of the recent major research findings concerning the effect of household behavior on food consumption and nutrition. Important extensions to the understanding of household behavior have been made in the areas of the impact of income and price changes, agricultural...

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Consumers WTP for Wine with Certified Origin: Latent Classes Based on Attitudinal Responses

Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara; Galletto, Luigi - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 2006

This paper investigates preference heterogeneity of wine consumers by using latent class models based on attitudinal questions. Such responses turn out to be an important source of additional information when the goal is to identify different groups of people with a similar wine preference...

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