Do Healthier Diets Cost More?

Christine K. Ranney and Paul McNamara

No 127305, Working Papers from Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management

Abstract: Do healthier diets cost more? We estimate a hedonic regression model of the U.S. diet. Given food expenditures and information on dietary intake we infer the marginal cost of improved quality. MeetingthePyramidrecommendationsimpliesdecreasedexpendituresfromtwoofthe seven food groups.

Keywords: Consumer/Household; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2002-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.127305

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