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Burke, Mary Cecilia (contributor); … - 2006

In order to explain the substantial recent increases in obesity rates in the United States, we consider the effect of falling food prices in the context of a model involving endogenous body weight norms and an explicit, empirically grounded description of human metabolism. Unlike previous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003713586

Present-focused preferences and sin goods consumption at the extensive and intensive margins

Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2020

This paper analyzes sin goods consumption when individuals exhibit present-focused preferences. It considers three types of present focus: present-bias with varying degrees of naiveté, Gul-Pesendorfer preferences, and a dual-self approach. We investigate the incentives to deviate from healthy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206092

Life-cycle consumption patterns at older ages in the US and the UK : can medical expenditures explain the difference?

Banks, James; Blundell, Richard W.; Levell, Peter; … - 2016

In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in spite of income paths being similar. We explore several possible causes, including different employment paths, housing ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534273

Life-cycle consumption patterns at older ages in the US and the UK : can medical expenditures explain the difference?

Banks, James; Blundell, Richard W.; Levell, Peter; … - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498398

Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the US and the UK : Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference?

Banks, James W.; Blundell, Richard W.; Levell, Peter; … - 2015

Our data indicate significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US in spite of income paths at older ages exhibiting similar declines. We examine several possible causes, including different employment paths, housing ownership and expenses, levels and paths...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135181

Health impacts of food assistance : evidence from the United States

Bitler, Marianne; Seifoddini, Arian - In: Annual review of resource economics 11 (2019), pp. 261-287

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Food and nutrition security indicators : a review

Pangaribowo, Evita Hanie; Gerber, Nicolas; Torero, Máximo - 2013

In this paper, we review existing food and nutrition security indicators, discuss some of their advantages and … reference to the existing definitions of food and nutrition security (FNS), in particular as they have been agreed upon and … FNS indicators to quantify the impacts of various shocks and interventions on food and nutrition security outcomes. …

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Who deserves to eat well? : an analysis of equality and efficiency in U.S. food assistance policy

Shimizu, Rei - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 24 (2020) 5/6, pp. 451-472

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Macroeconomic impacts of U.S. farm and nutrition programs

Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Weerasooriya, Senal - In: Journal of agricultural and resource economics : JARE ; … 44 (2019) 3, pp. 624-645

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Take-up and targeting : experimental evidence from SNAP

Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - 2018

Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are either provided with information that they are likely eligible, provided with this …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869003

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