The 2012 Ecuadorian National Nutrition and Health Survey found that a high proportion of the country's population is overweight or obese. To address this health issue, in 2013, the Ecuadorian government implemented the use of a mandatory traffic-light (TL) nutritional labeling to be displayed on...

This study evaluates the effects of traffic light (TL) nutritional label attributes on children's food choices. Data were collected from a survey of 1179 Ecuadorian students attending public middle and high school in three major cities in the country's southern region (Machala, Loja, and...

This article develops a structural econometric consumer demand model for goods, which have time and monetary costs, and where time spent obtaining the goods also enters into the utility function. The model is used to analyze customers' decision to buy pick-your-own versus preharvested...