laboratory, information about health effects leads to a statistically significant decrease (increase) in the willingness to pay … subsidy directly internalize health characteristics. The information policy combined with a per-unit tax on tuna and a per …A calibrated model is used to determine the welfare impacts of various regulatory instruments for improving health. The …

This study uses a generalized Bayesian updating model to estimate the impact of health information appearing in the … primary finding is that health information has a significant impact on U.S. egg consumption. Furthermore, the reaction to … health information is found to be temporary. Health information will, on average, decay to a point of unimportance in a …

, willingness to pay, reaction to new information), and underline some significant links. …

of food quality and prices, and to assess the potential impacts of such policies from a public health point of view. We … products. We also highlight a non-intentional effect of such policies: if consumer heterogeneity is high, then an information … policy may simultaneously provide health benefits to the population as a whole but worsen the health of consumers that are …

information policy may simultaneously provide health benefits to the population as a whole but worsen the health of consumers that … of food quality and prices, and to assess the potential impacts of such policies from a public health point of view. We … must meet to avoid taxation. It appears that this threshold must not be too high if the goal of nutritional policies is to …

Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic … variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different … that increases in health (and height) coincide with economic development. …

claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In … informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes.The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health … Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products issomewhat more restrictive than in …

demographic and health surveys undertaken during 1995–2006.The surveys are nationally representative and capture anthropometric … indicators for children aged below 5 years. The study investigated the determinants of health inequalities focusing on child … health status through a combination of decomposition and regression analysis. Our results show that household welfare status …