The Impact of Economic Factors on Consumer Health
Article comments
24 pages.
Copyright 2007 by Christiane Schroeter and Jayson L. Lusk. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies.
Abstract
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.