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

Soda taxes are meant to improve public health outcomes insofar as they curb consumption of sugary beverages and thus …

tax as an ad valorem tax on room price and assessing optimal tax rates accordingly to their incidence on the price of the …

RASKIN in 1998 to moderate the shocks of food price inflation and reduced employment to poor households. The program has been … continued since then with an objective to provide food security to poor families and is currently the largest in-kind transfer …-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find …

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 …