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Dietary quality as a non-medical health input: a theoretical approach to analyse the demand for dietary quality

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  • Christine Burggraf
  • Ramona Teuber
  • Thomas Glauben

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The aim of this inquiry is to provide a comprehensive theoretical framework, which describes the demand for dietary quality. In our dietary health investment model, we consider the health investment character of dietary choices as well as the intertemporal health-taste trade-off. Additionally, a simulation model is presented to illustrate the model's empirical application as well as its capability to replicate the patterns of dietary quality found in other empirical studies. As a result, our model setting can aid food and nutrition policy through an increased understanding of the responsible causal pathways behind the increasing prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases.

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  • Christine Burggraf & Ramona Teuber & Thomas Glauben, 2016. "Dietary quality as a non-medical health input: a theoretical approach to analyse the demand for dietary quality," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 43(5), pages 805-840.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:43:y:2016:i:5:p:805-840.
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    Keywords

    dietary quality; lifecycle model; health investment; nutrient intake;
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    JEL classification:

    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • D99 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Other
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior

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