Variety-Adjusted Food Prices Are Slightly Higher in Census Tracts Where Households Have Limited Access to a Supermarket

Michele Ver Ploeg () and Linlin Fan

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2018, vol. December 2018, issue 11

Abstract: Researchers found that consumers who live in urban census tracts with limited access to supermarkets, but are able to shop in nearby tracts, face variety-adjusted food prices that are 3.5 percent higher than prices in urban tracts with better access.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Financial Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302677

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