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An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight
Chen, Yanni; Huffman, Wallace E. - 2009
represented by a trivariate probit model that is fitted to data for adults in the NLSY79 panel with geocodes that have been … educated men are less likely to be obesity. Higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables and non-alcoholic drinks increase … likelihood of obesity for females but not for males; and a higher price for processed fruits and vegetables reduce likelihood of …
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An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight
Chen, Yanni; Huffman, Wallace E. - 2009
that is fitted to data for adults in the NLSY79 panel with geocodes that have been augmented with local area food, drink … be obesity. Higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables and non-alcoholic drinks increase likelihood of obesity for … females but not for males; and a higher price for processed fruits and vegetables reduce likelihood of obesity for females but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444707
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An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight
Chen, Yanni; Huffman, Wallace E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
that is fitted to data for adults in the NLSY79 panel with geocodes that have been augmented with local area food, drink … be obesity. Higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables and non-alcoholic drinks increase likelihood of obesity for … females but not for males; and a higher price for processed fruits and vegetables reduce likelihood of obesity for females but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991673
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Why Is the Obesity Rate So Low in Japan and High in the U.S.? Some Possible Economic Explanations
Senauer, Benjamin; Gemma, Masahiko - 2006
More than one billion adults are overweight worldwide, and more than 300 million of them clinically obese, raising the … international standard for obesity, whereas 32.0 percent of Americans do. A total of 66.5 percent of Americans have a BMI over 25 … of obesity in the world and the United States one of the highest, giving particular attention to underlying economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444491
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Why Is the Obesity Rate So Low in Japan and High in the U.S.? Some Possible Economic Explanations
Senauer, Benjamin; Gemma, Masahiko - Food Industry Center, College of Agricultural, Food, … - 2006
More than one billion adults are overweight worldwide, and more than 300 million of them clinically obese, raising the … international standard for obesity, whereas 32.0 percent of Americans do. A total of 66.5 percent of Americans have a BMI over 25 … of obesity in the world and the United States one of the highest, giving particular attention to underlying economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005522142
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Use of Supermarket Scanner Data to Measure Bread Consumption and Nutrition Choice in Scotland
Revoredo-Giha, Cesar; Lamprinopoulou, Chrysa; Toma, Luiza; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The recent rise in food prices has increased the concern about the choice of a healthy food basket, especially in the context of the discussion around the formulation of a National Food Policy for Scotland. This concern has brought back the interest in the price and expenditure demand systems as...
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The Impact of Rising Food Prices on the Poor
Zezza, Alberto; Davis, Benjamin; Azzarri, Carlo; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
This paper analyzes the household level impact of an increase in price of major tradable staple foods in a cross section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys. We find that, in the short term, poorer households and households with limited asset endowments and...
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CRITERIA FOR CRITIQUING SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTER MODELS WITH APPLICATION TO BARR-GALE MODEL FOR CONSUMER PRICE INDEX OF FOOD
Morland, Howard; Kannan, Narasimhan P.; Meadows, Dennis L. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1977) 1
The authors propose six questions relevant to the evaluation of all social system models, and apply them to the Barr-Gale model for forecasting the Consumer Price Index for Food. While analysts invest much effort in developing new economic models, relatively little attention is paid to...
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Are Healthy Foods Really More Expensive? It Depends on How You Measure the Price
Carlson, Andrea; Frazao, Elizabeth - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012
Most Americans consume diets that do not meet Federal dietary recommendations. A common explanation is that healthier foods are more expensive than less healthy foods. To investigate this assumption, the authors compare prices of healthy and less healthy foods using three different price...
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Wheat Prices, Bread Consumption and Health in Scotland
Revoredo-Giha, Cesar; Leat, Philip M.K.; Toma, Luiza; … - Land Economy and Environment Group, Scotland's Rural College - 2009
The relative recent rise in food prices has increased concern about the choice of a healthy food basket, especially in the context of the formulation of a National Food Policy for Scotland. This concern has revived interest in food price and expenditure demand systems as they provide information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010914639