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The Impact Of Economic Factors On Consumer Health

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Schroeter, Christiane
Lusk, Jayson L.

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This study estimates the relationship between economic factors and consumer health. The results show that increasing prices of food away from home are associated with decreasing the probability of risk factors and health conditions, which emphasizes the need to differ between multiple food types in health demand analysis.

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Paper provided by Western Agricultural Economics Association in its series 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon with number 7364.

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  1. Lin, Biing-Hwan & Frazao, Elizabeth & Guthrie, Joanne, 1999. "Away-From-Home Foods Increasingly Important to Quality of American Diet," Agricultural Information Bulletins 33733, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. [Downloadable!]
  2. David Cutler & Edward Glaeser & Jesse Shapiro, 2003. "Why Have Americans Become More Obese?," NBER Working Papers 9446, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Darius Lakdawalla & Tomas Philipson & Jay Bhattacharya, 2005. "Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(2), pages 253-257, May. [Downloadable!]
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