Fresh food supply in predominantly rural food deserts using the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein as a case study.For decades the local supply of groceries has been becoming sparser, not only in Germany. There are individual communities or larger regions without a single grocery shop. The...

We study the causes of "nutritional inequality": why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the U.S. Exploiting supermarket entry, household moves to healthier neighborhoods, and purchasing patterns among households with identical local supply, we reject that neighborhood environments...

We investigate how the supply of retail food outlets affects the household purchase of fruits and vegetables. We are particularly interested in the specific effects of the increased supply on household of fruit and vegetable purchases in underserved areas. Difference-in-difference type...