. Advances in food production have reduced the calorie costs of sweeteners and fats well below the costs of fruits, vegetables … nutrition information only shifts the supply of healthier foods toward higher-income, health conscious consumers. The most … promising food consumption policy interventions focus on providing incentives to increase production of healthier foods, and …

-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare …

design. Analyzing data on 10,787 adults from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, our estimation reveals that hypertension … frequency and the incidence of excessive drinking among them were reduced by 1.2 times/week and 17.9 percentage points …

-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare …

Organic food markets in developed countries have been rapidly expanding in recent years. Though expected health … benefits are a major motive for buying organic food (OF), the health effects of consuming OF are uncertain. This study uses … survey data from Germany, 2007, to explore the causal relationship between OF consumption and self-rated health status. While …

Organic food markets in developed countries have been rapidly expanding in recent years. Though expected health … benefits are a major motive for buying organic food (OF), the health effects of consuming OF are uncertain. This study uses … survey data from Germany, 2007, to explore the causal relationship between OF consumption and self-rated health status. While …

categories. Second, there is little evidence of a long-term impact on food purchases — when households become ineligible, the …

The paper estimates the causal impact of retirement on the healthiness of food purchases. The identification strategy … retirement increases fruit and vegetable purchases and overall healthiness of food purchases. I also find indirect evidence that … retirement increases the time spent on shopping and food preparation: it increases shopping frequency and shifts purchases to …

focus is on the incidence of the subsidy, i.e., we ask how much of the € 2,500 buyer subsidy is captured by the supply … subsidy amount. However, the incidence was heterogeneous across price segments. Subsidized buyers of cheap cars paid more than …

Very little is known about the basic income and price responsiveness of New Zealand food markets. As far as we can … determine, there has never been a complete disaggregated food demand model estimated for New Zealand. In a famous article, Court … included food in the aggregate, but the focus in these studies was primarily on the substitution possibilities between food as …