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| Alston, Julian M.; Okrent, Abigail M.. |
| Many commentators have claimed that farm subsidies have contributed significantly to the “obesity epidemic” by making fattening foods relatively cheap and abundant and, symmetrically, that taxing “unhealthy” commodities or subsidizing “healthy” commodities would contribute to reducing obesity rates. This paper makes three contributions. First, we review evidence from the literature on the impacts on food consumption and obesity resulting from subsidies applied in the past to production or consumption of farm commodities. Second, we develop and present new arguments and preliminary evidence on the impacts of past government investments in agricultural R&D on food consumption and obesity—through research-induced increases in agricultural productivity and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53336 |
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| Okrent, Abigail M.; Alston, Julian M.. |
| Food away from home (FAFH) is an important component of the demand for food and hence, the nutritional intake of adults and children in the United States. Hence, policies designed to influence nutritional outcomes should address the role of FAFH. However, most studies of the response of demand for food to policy changes have ignored the role of FAFH, which means the estimates must be biased, while those studies that have included FAFH have treated it as a single good, giving rise to potential aggregation biases. In this study we estimate a demand system including a FAFH and alcoholic beverages composite (i.e., the aggregate of the three products modeled in the second stage), along with nine food at home (FAH) products (cereals and bakery products, dairy,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Demand; Food Away From Home (FAFH); Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; Q11. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103625 |
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