Household food expenditures, parental time allocation, and childhood overweight: An integrated two-stage collective modelwith an empirical application and test

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 859-872

  You, Wen ^a   Davis, George C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood overweight; Food expenditures; Time allocation; Two stage collective model; Unitary model

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPENDITURE; FOOD; MODELING; OBESITY; POLICY ANALYSIS; TIME ALLOCATION;

EID: 77957658158     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aap031     Document Type: Article

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