Obesity

In this paper, we discuss the ways in which food markets might fail to deliver the optimal outcome and how this may justify government intervention.

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers.

This paper seeks to fill this gap by providing an in-depth examination of data from one company, Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), recording grocery purchases over five years. We assess how far the ongoing demands of participation lead to 'fatigue' in respondents' recording of their spending and the implications for household attrition, and we provide a detailed comparison of the expenditure data collected by TNS and the well-established Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS). Broadly, we suggest that problems of fatigue and attrition may not be particularly severe, though there are differences in expenditures that cannot be attributed to demographic or time effects and may be suggestive of survey mode effects.

Data from market research firms are increasingly being used by social science researchers. These data provide potentially useful information, including detailed nutritional information and well-measured prices, and their panel structure is appealing as it permits researchers to control for unobservable time-invariant household characteristics and to model dynamic aspects of household behaviour.

The Government is concerned that we are eating too much saturated fat.

This paper analyzss the effects of a ban on smoking in public places upon firms and consumers.

This paper documents the potential and actual savings that consumers realize from four particular types of purchasing behavior: purchasing on sale; buying in bulk (at a lower per unit price); buying generic brands; and choosing outlets.

The objective of this stidy is to estimate the effects of excess body weight on objective and subjective physical function and mortality risks in noninstitutionalized older adults.

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the

This paper considers the identification of the effect of tobacco on mortality.