"Economic Reform and Agricultural Trade in Central and Eastern Europe" and "Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation: Win-Win or Lose-Lose?"

This paper reviews some of the recent major research findings concerning the effect of household behavior on food consumption and nutrition. Important extensions to the understanding of household behavior have been made in the areas of the impact of income and price changes, agricultural...

This paper estimates a complete demand system for food for the United States using an extension of the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) with household and aggregate data. The major purpose is to explore the implications of aggregation over consumers. Empirical evidence, based on data from the...

Consumers concerns about food attributes related to health, safety and nutrition were ascertained by way of a mailed survey in the metropolitan area of St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1993. An ordered probit analysis was conducted to determine how these concerns correlated with eating habits...

Hopkins School District in Minnesota implemented an innovative school feeding program, which provides nutritionally sound foods that appeal to students. With access to a unique data set containing students food service purchases and demographic data from Hopkins High School, we use logit models...