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 …

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 …

often lack the necessary resources, they are forced to cut back on basic consumption, such as food, in order to afford a …

Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the … sugar exposure. We find that prenatal exposure to derationing increases education and reduces BMI and sugar consumption at … those who are genetically predisposed to sugar consumption. …

food might well have overstrained will power and led to suboptimal consumption decisions relative to people's own standards … progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of …

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and …'s recommended intakes. -- First World War ; Britain ; food controls ; food consumption ; nutrition … eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner …

model of fast food consumption. To estimate this equation we use a quasi maximum likelihood approach that allows us to … peer effects in fast food consumption among adolescents belonging to a same friendship school network. Based on our … a panel dynamic weight production function relating an individual's Body Mass Index z-score (zBMI) to his fast food …

This article re-examines the food consumption of working class households in 1904 and compares the nutritional content … food consumption. We also find that the lower tail of the household nutrition distribution drops away very rapidly, so that … allowance is made for the likely consumption of alcohol, household energy intakes were significantly higher still. We …

women increases the expenditure share on food by about 4 to 5%. To study the allocation of expenditures within the food … basket, we estimate a demand system for food and we find that targeting payments to mothers induces, for different food …