Using 3 years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, we estimate the behavior of households that simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. We use the estimated parameters to calculate elasticities and to simulate the...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that in 2010-2012, 868 million people were undernourished world-wide. At the sam time, FAO reported that approximately 1.3 billion tons of food were lost or wasted globally in 2007, which was equivalent to...