-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … 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 …

This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying the Grossman model. Using a wave of China Health and … Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has an important positive effect on health, and cost of health care services … that region is an important determinant of health. The body weight is also important, but unlike the finding in developed …

find a decrease by 0.5 admissions (-6.5%) due to asthma per day, per 1 million population. The health prevention effects …

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 …

Do health warnings change consumer behaviour? And for how long? We address these questions by studying the effects of … the design of health warnings should account for such heterogeneity in the consumers' response …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments …

increases by beverage group and the impacts on public health of alternative types of tax hikes whose main aims are to increase …