IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea12/124945.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Distributional Changes in U.S. Dietary Quality 1989-2008

Author

Listed:
  • Beatty, Timothy K.M.
  • Lin, Biing-Hwan
  • Smith, Travis A.

Abstract

This paper uses stochastic dominance to measure changes in the distribution of overall dietary quality in the U.S. over the period 1989{2008. Diet quality is often used as as a proxy for wellbeing and an outcome variable for a wide variety of interventions. For the population as a whole, we find significant improvements in diets across all levels of dietary quality. Further, we find improvements for both low-income and higher-income individuals alike. We show that the improvements vary between these groups with regards to the timing and distributional location. Further, we find that over half of the improvement for all individuals can be explained by changes in food formulation and changes in demographics.

Suggested Citation

  • Beatty, Timothy K.M. & Lin, Biing-Hwan & Smith, Travis A., 2012. "Distributional Changes in U.S. Dietary Quality 1989-2008," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124945, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea12:124945
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.124945
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/124945/files/Beatty%20Lin%20Smith%20_2012_%20AAEA_%20Distributional%20Changes%20in%20US%20Diet%20Quality%201989-2008.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.124945?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Smith, Travis A., 2013. ""Billions and Billions Served" Heterogeneous Effects of Food Source on Child Dietary Quality," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 151212, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea12:124945. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.