TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boizot-Szantai,Christine
AU  -  Etilé,Fabrice
TI  - Food Prices and the Distribution of Body Mass Index in France
PY  - 2009///.
							
N1  - 16
N2  - Are individual differences in Body Mass Index ( bmi) related to differences in food prices? French food scanner data are used to estimate the effect of the prices of 23 food product categories covering food-at-home consumption on the bmi distribution in a sample of French adults. Using quantile regressions, we find significant negative elasticities to the prices of cheeses, oils, pastries and deserts, and ready-meals for marginally overweight or obese women and to the prices of non-alcoholic beverages and ready-meals for marginally overweight men. These estimates of the price- bmi regressions should be read cautiously, as omission of unobserved factors such as individual physical activity levels may bias the results. Classification JEL: D12, H2, I12, I18
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-economique-2009-2-page-413?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -