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How Does the Business Cycle Affect Eating Habits?
Dave, Dhaval M. - 2010
As economic expansions raise employment and wages, associated shifts in income and time constraints would be expected to also impact individuals' health. This study utilizes information from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (1990-2007) to explore the relationship between the risk...
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Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants
Bollinger, Bryan - 2010
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' food choices--there is almost no change in purchases of...
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When Incentives Backfire : Spillover Effects in Food Choice
Angelucci, Manuela - 2015
How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes...
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Time Preferences and Food Choice
Brownback, Andy; Imas, Alex; Kuhn, Michael A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral economics. However, the literature lacks a direct demonstration that they are well-predicted by incentivized time preference measures. We offer direct evidence by combining a novel,...
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Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-mercury and Child Cognitive Development
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2020
We exploit variation in the composition of local fish catches around the time of birth using administrative and census … the causal effects of early-life consumption of methylmercury (MeHg) and DHA, elements contained in fish, on cognitive … development. Using an IV strategy based on an equilibrium model of fish supply that exploits time-series variation in oceanic SST …
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A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market
Graddy, Kathryn - 2009
We estimate a dynamic profit-maximization model of a fish wholesaler who can observe consumer characteristics, set … the key features observed in a set of high quality transaction-level data on fish sales collected at the Fulton fish …
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On the Economics of Extinction and Mass Extinctions
Taylor, Michael Scott; Weder, Rolf - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Human beings' domination of the planet has not been kind to many species worldwide. This is to be expected. Humans have radically altered natural landscapes, harvested heavily from the ocean, and altered the climate in an unprecedented way. Recent concerns over the extent and rate of...
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The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Coate, Douglas - 1983
In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth...
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Finance and Children’s Academic Performance
Hu, Qing - 2020
What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children's human capital? Using a parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children's academic performance in low-income families. Consistent with the view that financial development entices...
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Understanding Overeating and Obesity
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2010
The combination of economic and biological factors is likely to result in overeating, in the current environment of cheap and readily available food. This propensity is shown using a "dual-decision" approach where choices reflect the interaction between two parts of the brain: a "deliberative"...
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