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This study examines the role of reliable vehicles in facilitating employment, using a new dataset, the Iowa Transportation and Employment Survey. The empirical results document significantly higher levels of transportation problems and human capital barriers among low-income compared to other...

Background: Low socioeconomic status is associated with poor diet, food insufficiency, and poor child health. Hispanic households have disproportionately low incomes. Acculturation-related changes may augment the effects of poverty on children's diet and health.Objective: The goal was to...

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Spain is one of the largest consumers of seafood in the world and its consumption of both fresh and prepared seafood has increased in past years. The demand for prepared foods, including seafood products, is postively relatd to the value of women's time. Household expenditures on seafood...

Recently enacted food safety regulations require processors to meet product standards for microbial contamination in meat products. An analysis of the cost-effectiveness of several technological interventions for microbial control in beef and pork processing shows that marginal improvements in...

WIC, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, is a widely studied public food assistance program that aims to provide foods, nutrition education and other services to at-risk, low-income children and pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women. From a policy...

Food safety agencies have adopted risk-based regulatory approaches, principally Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) systems, and have made significant efforts to coordinate policy development. Integrating information on how economic behavior influences risk levels with scientific...

An analysis of the structure of demand was performed on household data, classified into income groups, for urban Indonesia. A demographically augmented, linearized, almost ideal demand system was used to estimate the structural parameters of the demand equations. The results confirmed that the...