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This paper examines the relationship between SNAP participation and prices paid for food items. To test this relationship, we develop an expensiveness index following the method of Aguiar and Hurst (2007) and use the FoodAPS data set. Using both ordinary least squares (OLS) method and...
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The 2012 Ecuadorian National Nutrition and Health Survey found that a high proportion of the country's population is overweight or obese. To address this health issue, in 2013, the Ecuadorian government implemented the use of a mandatory traffic-light (TL) nutritional labeling to be displayed on...
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This study evaluates the effects of traffic light (TL) nutritional label attributes on children's food choices. Data were collected from a survey of 1179 Ecuadorian students attending public middle and high school in three major cities in the country's southern region (Machala, Loja, and...
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