Rigid price setting and high organic price premiums have been perceived as major purchase barriers to organic meat products. While emerging price and product differentiation have been reported for organic products in other categories, empirical evidence for the organic fresh meat market is...

This paper reviews the application of household production theory to health and nutrition and their determinants in the economics literature. We examine 17 recent studies applying this approach and analyse how they model utility functions, elementary goods, and production processes....

This study analyses whether Russian households differ in their choice of food quality when they differ in their number of overweight and obese members. Using survey data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for the years 1995-2005, households are classified into three weight...