A model of nutrition information search with an application to food labels

Andreas Drichoutis (), Panagiotis Lazaridis () and Rodolfo M. Nayga

No 2009-2, Working Papers from Agricultural University of Athens, Department Of Agricultural Economics

Abstract: Due to the dramatic rise of several diet-related chronic diseases, nutrition information search behaviours have received significant interest from both the scientific and non-scientific literature. No other known paper in economics, however, has examined from a theoretical perspective the acquisition of nutrition information as a health enhancing activity. We modify the standard health capital model (Grossman, 1972) to allow the time spent on nutrition information search to be considered within the context of a time allocation decision. We then collected extensive primary data based on the theoretical model and used these to test the model.

Keywords: nutrition information; food labels; health production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009
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