Preference heterogeneity in food demand has important health and equity implications for targeted taxes and subsidies intended to enhance diet quality and reduce obesity. We study the role of obesity in the purchases of food at home and food away from home using data from the nationally...

This thesis first considers some extensions of the existing discrete choice models. One such extension is to use the scale mixture of multivariate normal distributions for the random part of the utility in a random utility maximization framework. By doing so, we expand the horizon of discrete...