weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …

Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost … on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in … results imply a net reduction in healthy food store choice due to time lost. …

with observed household consumption decisions. Our approach is based on inference from household-level estimation of food … Engel curves in the US and in a few other countries. For a given price index as the deflator of income, deviations from food …

cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects … of these programs. This article considers one such program, the Zambian Food Reserve Agency (FRA), which purchases maize …

future research. -- health behaviors ; alcohol ; tobacco ; smoking ; drugs ; obesity ; diet ; food ; physical activity …

This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on … household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current … Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow geographic identifiers available in the restricted version of these data …

mother works), but also income from other transfer programs (such as SSI and Food Stamps) decreases - resulting in increasing …