Background: Academic research examining relationships between time spent in food related activities and obesity using nationally representative data is emerging in the literature and suggests that spending more time in food related activities, including food preparation and primary eating are...

This paper uses year-to-year variation in temperature to estimate the long-term effects of climate change on health outcomes in Mexico. Combining temperature data at the district level and three rounds of nationally representative household surveys,an individual’s health as an adult is matched...

Unlike many studies of learning and pharmaceuticals, this paper considers credence goods such as vitamins and the role of consumer experience in resolving uncertainty when the user cannot observe the effects of the goods after consumption. The Homescan data justifies variations in the purchases:...

The objective of the study is twofold: first, to investigate whether a nutrition convergence process exists in sub Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, and second, to examine the response of per capita nutrient intake [i.e. calories, proteins and fats] to changes in income (i.e. nutrient-income...

This paper explores the effects of urbanization on nutrition transition and obesity. Taking adult individuals from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), from the year 1989 to 2009, this study confirms the hypothesis that rising urbanization has positive effects on the obesity level....

Adoption of agricultural technology can lead to multiple benefits to farm households, including increased productivity, incomes and food consumption. However, specific causal linkages between agricultural technology adoption and child nutrition outcomes are rarely explored in the literature....

A project was designed with a supermarket with an objective to encourage the development of a community environment supportive of lifestyles that could reduce residents risk for obesity and cancer in a small community to provide point of sale signs or nudges. These signs encouraged consumers to...