Alston, Julian M.; Okrent, Abigail M.; Parks, Joanna - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
.S. obesity rates? In this paper we investigate the effects of public investment in agricultural R&D on food prices, per capita … calorie consumption, adult body weight, obesity, public health-care expenditures related to obesity, and social welfare. First … predicted changes in food consumption and hence obesity. We find that a 10 percent increase in the stream of annual U.S. public …