food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food …. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a price … imports from the U.S. explains about ten percent of the rise in obesity prevalence among Mexican women between 1988 and 2012 …

Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral … food choice, capturing a number of behaviors consistent with self-control problems, which provides direct evidence for the …

quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity … score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is used to measure nutritional quality of household food purchases. WIC … foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …

How much do calorie requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric … intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

similar non-chefs. We extend our analysis to cover 50 retail health categories and 241 food and drink categories. The results …, and a much smaller share for most food and drink products. We tie our estimates together using a stylized model of demand …

There is insufficient research on the direct effects of food advertising on children's diet and diet-related health … Survey-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) and the Nielsen Company data on spot television advertising of cereals, fast food … food advertising on television and children's food consumption and body weight. Our results suggest that soft drink and …