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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 …
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This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
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We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
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, 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 …
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In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is …
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This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d'Ivoire. Using data from the 2002 Cote d'Ivoire Living Standard Survey and a theoretical framework developed by Crawford et al. (2003), we analyse price effects on the demand for groups...
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In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and … eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner … workers' households. We also find that the price controls were particularly effective in changing the pattern of food spending …
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model of fast food consumption. To estimate this equation we use a quasi maximum likelihood approach that allows us to … a panel dynamic weight production function relating an individual's Body Mass Index z-score (zBMI) to his fast food … peer effects in fast food consumption among adolescents belonging to a same friendship school network. Based on our …
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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 …
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over six year of fundamental structural reforms of the economy. Our results highlight large and dramatically changing food …
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