Healthy food, unhealthy food and obesity

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 300-303

  Zheng, Xiaoyong ^a   Zhen, Chen ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand system estimation; Food demand; Obesity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951811625     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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