. Advances in food production have reduced the calorie costs of sweeteners and fats well below the costs of fruits, vegetables … nutrition information only shifts the supply of healthier foods toward higher-income, health conscious consumers. The most … promising food consumption policy interventions focus on providing incentives to increase production of healthier foods, and …

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 …

low food costs, and the potential health damages caused by food preservatives. However, few studies in the current …Consumers are facing a trade-off between the benefits of an increase in the length of the shelf life of food, such as … literature place emphasis on food preservatives, neither from a scientific perspective nor from an economic perspective. This …

The presence of food waste, and ways to it, has generated significant debate among industry stakeholders, policy makers …, and consumer groups around the world. Many have argued that the variety of date labels used by food manufacturers leads to … confusion about food quality and food safety among consumers. Here, we develop a between-subject, laboratory experiment with …

, the marketing actions of the food industry are often singled out as one of the main culprits. But how exactly is food …, economics, food science, and related disciplines that have examined the links between food marketing and energy intake but have … ways in which food prices (including temporary price promotions) and marketing communication (including branding and …

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 model in which food waste is identified as input inefficiency. For …

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 state of Mississippi over 2007-2012. Since food scraps comprise the …

Background: Genetically modified (GM) foods could be a promising option to reduce the dependence of the agri-food … system on conventional means of crop improvement. However, the safety of GM food remains a concern, in addition to the … tools. The search strategy utilized the topic basis search of phrases related to GM food preference and perception …

We provide causal evidence on how date marking policies influence consumers' valuation of perishable food products … through three consecutive research steps. In a preparatory in-store survey (n = 100), we identify perishable food items that … price list (MPL) experiment (n = 200) then tests consumers' valuation of perishable food of varying shelf-life (expiry date …