Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cornelsen, Laura
• Mazzocchi, Mario
• Green, Rosemary
• Dangour, Alan D.
• Smith, Richard D.

Titel

Estimating the Relationship between Food Prices and Food Consumption — Methods Matter

Ist Teil von

• Applied economic perspectives and policy, 2016-09, Vol.38 (3), p.546-561

Ort / Verlag

Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Concerns about the growing prevalence of obesity worldwide have led researchers and policy makers to investigate the potential health impact of fiscal policies such as taxes on unhealthy foods. A common instrument used to measure the relationship between food prices and food consumption is the price elasticity of demand. Using meta-regression analysis we assessed how differences in methodological approaches to estimating demand affected food price elasticities. Most methodological differences had a statistically significant impact on elasticity estimates, which stresses the importance of using meta-estimates or testing the sensitivity of simulation outcomes to a range of elasticity parameters before drawing policy conclusions.