Average weekly total food expenditures rose from $21.55 per person in 1982 to $22.55 in 1984. Weekly spending per person for food consumed at home increased from $14.08 to $14.52 and from $7.48 to $8.03 for food consumed away from home. This report presents information on weekly food...

This paper proposes a theory for the social evolution of obesity. It considers a society, in which individuals experience utility from consumption of food and non-food, the state of their health, and the evaluation of their appearance by others. The theory explains why, ceteris paribus, poor...

This paper proposes a theory for the social evolution of obesity. It considers a society in which individuals experience utility from consumption of food and non-food, the state of their health, and the evaluation of their appearance by others. The theory explains under which conditions poor...

An age-structured model for childhood obesity at population level is fitted to empirical data in order to predict the proportion of overweighted and obese children in the 6-8 and 9-12 year old classes in the region of Valencia, Spain.

Social scientists have recognized the importance of age-period-cohort (APC) models for half a century, but have spent much of this time mired in debates about the feasibility of APC methods. Recently, a new class of APC methods based on modern statistical knowledge has emerged, offering...

The model for analyzing the impact of the Food Stamp Program on food purchased for use at home indicates that no continuous relationship exists between at-home food expenditures and income of food stamp participant households As previous studies have not allowed for this fact, they may have...

Larger marginal impacts on household food spending come from food stamps than from equivalent cash income, according to previous studies. These studies have been limited, however, in using food expenditure equations that are linear in the coefficients, placing prior constraints on the estimated...

Average weekly total food expenditures per person rose from $18.95 in 1980 to $20.03 in 1981. Weekly spending per person for food at home and away from home rose from $12.82 to $13.53 and from $6.11 to $6.50, respectively. This bulletin presents information on weekly food expenditures per...

Average annual food expenditures in urban households rose 59 percent from $985 per person in 1980 to $1,567 in 1992 While per person income rose 94 percent from $6,916 to $13,398. As a result, the percent of household income spent on food declined from 14.2 to 11.7 percent Annual spending per...

Households participating in the Food Stamp Program increased their food expenditures an average of 10 percent Their food-at-home expenditures rose 19 percent while food-away-from-home expenditures declined 36 percent Increases occurred for cereal and dairy products, eggs, nonalcoholic beverages,...