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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America?
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| Autores: |
Anderson, Michael L.
Matsa, David A.
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| Data: |
2007-12-30
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| Ano: |
2007
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| Palavras-chave: |
Economics of regulation
Health production
Obesity
Fat tax
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Health Economics and Policy
D12
H25
I12
I18
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| Resumo: |
Replaced with revised version Feb. 24, 2010.
While many researchers and policymakers infer from correlations between eating out and body weight that restaurants are a leading cause of obesity, a basic identification problem challenges these conclusions. We exploit the placement of Interstate highways in rural areas to obtain exogenous variation in the effective price of restaurants and examine the impact on body mass. We find no causal link between restaurant consumption and obesity. Analysis of food-intake micro-data suggests that consumers offset calories from restaurant meals by eating less at other times. We conclude that regulation targeting restaurants is unlikely to reduce obesity but could decrease consumer welfare.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/37652
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| Relação: |
University of California, Berkeley>Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics>CUDARE Working Papers
CUDARE Working Papers
1056R
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| Formato: |
68
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