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In this paper we try to contribute to the understanding of the persistence and increase of meat eating in the face of … mounting evidence on the ills of meat production and consumption by considering the role of selective attention and learning … campaigns about the externalities of meat consumption might be ineffective as the informational content may be lost on precisely …
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, economic and demographic growth could boost the demand for meat, with significant environmental repercussions. We model meat … improvements - meat demand in SSA is bound to become a major sustainability challenge. We show that a partial substitution of the …
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The share of home-cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a decline in the market price of ingredients for home cooking relative to ready-to-eat foods. We consider a simple model of food consumption and time use which captures the key...
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Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
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