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

This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and … insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … examines the general relationships between these variables and finds that reports of food hardships are positively associated …

This paper examines the link between dynamically inconsistent time preferences and individual food waste behavior. Food … waste is conceptualized as unintentional outcome of choices along the food consumption chain. Capitalizing on a nationally … representative longitudinal survey from Germany, we construct targeted metrics of food consumption and waste behaviors. We find that …

with observed household consumption decisions. Our approach is based on inference from household-level estimation of food … Engel curves in the US and in a few other countries. For a given price index as the deflator of income, deviations from food …

Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost … on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in … results imply a net reduction in healthy food store choice due to time lost. …

This paper investigates time inconsistencies in food consumption based on a field experiment at a college canteen where … and satisfies the consume-on-receipt assumption. Leveraging 3,666 choices of different food healthiness, we find no time … inconsistency at the meal level. Utility weight estimates at the dish level reveal that consumers balance healthiness between food …