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Documenting the Link Between Poor Food Access and Less Healthy Product Assortment Across the U.S

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  • Lauren Chenarides
  • Edward C Jaenicke

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This paper, which investigates food access and underserved areas in the U.S., differs from most existing research by explicitly examining food retailers' in-store product availability, a retailing outcome that might exacerbate or mitigate consumer impacts of residing in areas with poor food access. Using detailed retailer scanner data from 2010–2015 and measures of food access, we investigate the relationship between healthy product assortments and food access. Our results consistently show a negative and significant relationship between census tracts with poor food access and healthy product assortments featuring fruits and vegetables. This finding provides rigorous documentation for what other researchers have claimed, namely that consumers who reside in underserved communities and are already burdened with poor food access endure the hardship of facing less healthy assortments of food items.

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  • Lauren Chenarides & Edward C Jaenicke, 2019. "Documenting the Link Between Poor Food Access and Less Healthy Product Assortment Across the U.S," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 41(3), pages 434-474.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:apecpp:v:41:y:2019:i:3:p:434-474.
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    Cited by:

    1. Parke Wilde & Mehreen Ismail & Michele Ver Ploeg, 2021. "The Quality of the Food Retail Environment When Consumers May Be Mobile," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 43(2), pages 701-715, June.
    2. Cuffey, Joel & Li, Wenying & Yu, Yang & Miao, Ruiqing, 2023. "Retail food environment and household food waste: An empirical study," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 117(C).
    3. Scharadin, Benjamin & Ver Ploeg, Michele L. & Glickman, Alannah & Clark, Jill K., 2021. "Food Purchasing Decisions along the Distribution of an Individual Food Retail Quality Measure," 2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas 314045, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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