Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier...

Diet is important in determining health outcomes. Thus, it is important to understand the factors influencing dietary choice. Budget constraints are a common explanation for the poor dietary choices made by households in the U.S. We test this hypothesis by exploiting shocks to household budgets...

This article constructs a theoretical model of rational food waste and analyzes how an extension of a food product's sell-by date affect a household's decisions of purchase volume and food waste. We then use the elimination of New York City's regulation of sell-by dates for pasteurized milk...