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. …

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 …

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 …

competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries. …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is …

, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …

. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …