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Pancrazi, Roberto, Van Rens, Thijs and Vukotić, Marija (2022) How distorted food prices discourage a healthy diet. Science Advances, 8 (13). eabi8807 . doi:10.1126/sciadv.abi8807 ISSN 2375-2548.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi8807
Abstract
Public policy making for the prevention of diet-related disease is impeded by a lack of evidence on whether poor diets are a matter of personal responsibility or a choice set narrowed by environmental conditions. An important element of the environment is market imperfections in food retail that distort prices. We use a rich dataset on quantities and prices of food purchases in the United States and a structural model of dietary choices to examine variation in diets across households that have different levels of income and live in different neighborhoods. We find that price distortions account for one-third of the gap between the recommended and actual intake of fruits and vegetables. A feasible fiscal intervention that remedies these distortions makes all consumers better off.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Food prices , Food prices -- United States, Nutritionally induced diseases , Nutritionally induced diseases -- United States, Food habits -- United States, Food industry and trade -- United States, Obesity -- United States -- Prevention | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Science Advances | ||||||||
Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2375-2548 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 8 | ||||||||
Number: | 13 | ||||||||
Article Number: | eabi8807 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1126/sciadv.abi8807 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 April 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 April 2022 | ||||||||
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