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Healthy food, unhealthy food and obesity |
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| Authors: | Xiaoyong Zheng Chen Zhen |
| Institution: | aDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8109, Raleigh, NC, 27695, United States;bRTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Rd, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, United States |
| Abstract: | We examine whether the latent behavioral mechanisms embedded in two “price effects” explanations of the obesity problem are operative. Our findings lend support to the hypothesis that falling food price is one likely cause of the obesity epidemic. |
| Keywords: | Obesity Food demand Demand system estimation |
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