This paper examines the relationship between food retail density and municipal solid waste. We test for correlations between the volume of solid waste and the number of food-at-home retailers (e.g., grocery stores) and food-away-from-home retailers (e.g., restaurants) at the county level in the...

This paper uses a structural model of household food waste to discuss how the jointness of meal production, consumption, and time allocation decisions, are important in understanding potential drivers of household food waste. We discuss how empiricists can utilize the model for empirical...

This paper investigates household food waste in the context of inefficient food production. Food waste is typically defined as the proportion of edible food that goes unconsumed, whereas inefficiency is measured by a household's inability to reach some technically efficient production frontier....