and the tax incidence among income groups of VAT reforms and excise duty reforms. The VAT reforms include subsidies of … healthy products(products labelled with the Swedish National Food Administration’s healthy symbol) funded by increased VAT on … the lowest income group, the excise duty reforms seem to have a positive health effect across all other income groups …

-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 …

-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 …

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 …

The interest of this study is the tradeoff between nutrition and taste in consumer food choice. We examine choice … a large sample of households participating in the AC Nielsen Homescan data system. For each of the food categories we …

Mercury exposure has emerged as one of the most prominent environmental health and food safety concerns. The primary …