The agricultural sector is a significant part of global emissions, and the consumption of animal-derived products is a major contributor to these emissions. The adoption of an environmental output tax on the consumption of meat and dairy products in Italy is needed to reduce greenhouse gas...

Carbon footprint (CF) labels on agri-food products represent one of the most important tools to convey information to consumers about the greenhouse gases emissions associated with their purchase behaviour.

In this paper we investigate the size of the consumption drop at retirement in Italy. We use micro data on food and total non-durable household spending covering the period 1993-2004, and evaluate the change in consumption that accompanies retirement by exploiting the exogenous variability in...