Association between Total Diet Cost and Diet Quality Is Limited

There is a common perception that it costs more to eat a healthy diet than a less healthy one. We derive a panel data model that accounts for unobserved specific individual effects to estimate the relationship between diet quality and total daily food expenditure. Since total daily diet cost and die...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrea Carlson, Diansheng Dong, Mark Lino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 2014-04-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/168259