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significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health. For the sales experiment, we can reject at …
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We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry, household moves to healthier neighborhoods, and purchasing patterns among households with identical local supply, we reject that...
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We study the impact of mandatory calorie posting on consumers' purchase decisions, using detailed data from Starbucks …. We find that average calories per transaction falls by 6%. The effect is almost entirely related to changes in consumers …
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Aside from the equilibrium that Hotelling (1931) displayed, his model of non-renewable resources also contains a continuum of bubble equilibria. In all the equilibria the price of the resource rises at the rate of interest. In a bubble equilibrium, however, the consumption of the resource peters...
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, wine in particular, rebounded through all forms of media. In the spring of 2003, French business people even reported that … the boycott calls were hurting their U.S. sales. Using a dataset of sales of nearly 4,700 individual wine brands, we show … that there actually was no boycott effect. Rather, sales of French wine dipped for two reasons. First, they experience a …
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particular industry, the California wine industry. In both a formal model and an empirical analysis, we examine the implications …
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Several public health interest groups in the United States have recently called for equalization of the federal tax on … a unit of alcohol in beer, in wine and in spirits. This paper provides some new empirical evidence of what effect … consumption results from an increase in spirits taxes, followed by beer taxes and then wine taxes. This suggests that the existing …
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The French Opposition to the war in Iraq in early 2003, prompted calls for a boycott of French wine in the US. We … measure the magnitude of consumers%u2019 participation in the boycott, and look at basic evidence of who participates …
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This paper investigates changes in cultural consumption patterns for a low concentration industry: wine and beer. Using … data on 38 countries from 1963-2000, there is clear convergence in the consumption of wine relative to beer between 1963 … and consumption patterns -- although the relative consumption of wine can be explained well in 1963 by grape production …
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years, questions have arisen about whether its services help or harm consumers. In response, states have increasingly … consumers. On balance, our results also seem to support the relevance of theories of occupational licensing that stress the …
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