Over the past decade, the food industry has increased its use of front-of-package and shelf-tag nutrition labeling designed to present key nutritional aspects and characteristics of food products. One such system is the Guiding Stars Program™ (GSP), which uses an algorithm to score the...

Taxing unhealthy foods has been proposed as a means to improve diet and health by reducing calorie intake and raising funds to combat obesity, particularly sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). A growing number of studies have examined the effects of such food taxes, but few have estimated the...

An AIDS-like demand system model is developed with an easy-to-calculate chain-price index that replaces the price index in the original AIDS.

Preference variables are included in the inverse Rotterdam model based on the Tintner-Ichimura-Basmann relationship linking preference effects on quantities demanded to price effects and preference effects on marginal utilities. Restrictions are placed on the effects of the preference variables...

Nutrition labels on food packages are designed to promote and protect public health by providing nutrition information so that consumers can make informed dietary choices. High levels of total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol in diets are linked to increased blood cholesterol levels and a...