-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare …

-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare …

design. Analyzing data on 10,787 adults from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, our estimation reveals that hypertension … frequency and the incidence of excessive drinking among them were reduced by 1.2 times/week and 17.9 percentage points …

Organic food markets in developed countries have been rapidly expanding in recent years. Though expected health … benefits are a major motive for buying organic food (OF), the health effects of consuming OF are uncertain. This study uses … survey data from Germany, 2007, to explore the causal relationship between OF consumption and self-rated health status. While …

Organic food markets in developed countries have been rapidly expanding in recent years. Though expected health … benefits are a major motive for buying organic food (OF), the health effects of consuming OF are uncertain. This study uses … survey data from Germany, 2007, to explore the causal relationship between OF consumption and self-rated health status. While …

categories. Second, there is little evidence of a long-term impact on food purchases — when households become ineligible, the …

The paper estimates the causal impact of retirement on the healthiness of food purchases. The identification strategy … retirement increases fruit and vegetable purchases and overall healthiness of food purchases. I also find indirect evidence that … retirement increases the time spent on shopping and food preparation: it increases shopping frequency and shifts purchases to …

RASKIN in 1998 to moderate the shocks of food price inflation and reduced employment to poor households. The program has been … continued since then with an objective to provide food security to poor families and is currently the largest in-kind transfer …-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find …

diversification strategies on household welfare and health outcomes (i.e. child nutrition) for both rural and urban dwellers. Thus …