A behavioural analysis of the diet-health relationship in the older Italian population

Mario Mazzocchi, Xavier Irz, Lucia Modugno and W Bruce Traill

No 170497, 88th Annual Conference, April 9-11, 2014, AgroParisTech, Paris, France from Agricultural Economics Society

Abstract: The continuous aging of the EU population poses important challenges to the sustainability of welfare states. Part of the solution is to ensure that people not only live longer but also better (i.e., can function independently while remaining free of disease and disability), which may be achieved through better nutrition. In order to test that proposition, we develop a behavioural model of diet quality choice and health determination. The simultaneous equation model, which accounts for the endogeneity of dietary and other lifestyle choices, is applied to a sample of older people from Italy and allows for the possibility of bi-directional causality between diet and health.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17
Date: 2014-04
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.170497

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