Similar Search Results

The Behavioralist as Nutritionist : Leveraging Behavioral Economics To Improve Child Food Choice and Consumption

List, John A. - 2014

Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., with now almost a third of children ages 2-19 deemed overweight or obese. In this study, we leverage recent findings from behavioral economics to explore new approaches to tackling one aspect of childhood obesity: food choice and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458532

Behavioral Feedback : Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?

Oster, Emily - 2018

In many health domains, we are concerned that observed links - for example, between "healthy" behaviors and good … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … people with other positive health behaviors. Such changes in selection would make it even more difficult to learn about …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480876

How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?

Case, Anne - 1999

We examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between parent and child. We used 18 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471384

School Food Policy Affects Everyone : Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program

Handbury, Jessie; Moshary, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the private market response to the National School Lunch Program, documenting economically meaningful spillovers to non-recipients. We focus on the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), an expansion of the lunch program under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Under the CEP,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660062

The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases : Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision

Marcus, Michelle M.; Yewell, Katherine G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660073

Demand Shocks and Supply Chain Resilience : An Agent Based Modelling Approach and Application to the Potato Supply Chain

Lu, Liang; Nguyen, Ruby; Rahman, Md Mamunur; Winfree, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The food supply chain has experienced major disruptions from both demand and supply sides during the Covid-19 pandemic. While some consequences such as food waste are directly caused by the disruption due to supply chain inefficiency, others are indirectly caused by a change in consumer's...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616614

How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption

Atkin, David - 2019

Are identities fungible? How do people come to identify with specific groups? This paper proposes a revealed preference approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of identity goods (e.g. beef and pork) systematically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479644

The Income Elasticity for Nutrition : Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya

Almås, Ingvild - 2019

We use a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of large income changes, through unconditional cash transfers, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred estimate of the food elasticity following USD 709 transfers is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479662

WIC Participation and Relative Quality of Household Food Purchases : Evidence from FoodAPS

Fang, Di - 2018

We examine the effect of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on the quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480942

Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?

Jensen, Robert T. - 2010

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consumers may then substitute towards foods with higher...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462554

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last