Milk, soft drink and juice consumption is investigated for children and adolescents in the USA. Full-information maximum likelihood estimator (FIML) and parsimonious quasi maximum-likelihood (QML) alternative are used to estimate a censored system of beverage equations. The QML estimator is...

This paper investigates the extent to which off-farm employment by the farm couples affects food expenditures at home and away from home, by developing and estimating a dual treatment effect model. Off-farm employment by a farm operator is found to increase food expenditure away from home, but...

This paper investigates household expenditures on food away from home by type of facility. A system of expenditures at full-service restaurants, fast-food restaurants and other facilities are estimated with a multivariate sample selection procedure, for three types of households by household...

The European Union is contemplating making the provision of nutritional labels in food products mandatory. Using data collected from food shoppers, we assessed consumers' valuation of nutritional labels by analysing their willingness to pay a premium for a box of cookies with a nutritional...

This paper briefly covers some of the recent issues and policies related to nutrition, obesity and health. Some of the important economic research gaps, needs and challenges are then discussed focusing on few selected themes, namely the data needs, methodological and modelling challenges and...

We comment on a recent important article by Akbay et al. and discuss some methodological and estimation issues arising from their paper. We then suggest alternative procedures that may help improve their estimates and thereby enhance their usefulness as a basis for food policy and marketing...

Factors affecting nutritional food label use in Greece are examined using primary data collected from personal interviews with consumers shopping at supermarkets in Athens. The econometric approach treats nutrition knowledge, where appropriate, as an endogenous variable when estimating the...