Food away from home expenditures and obesity among older Europeans: Are there gender differences?

Empirical Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1051-1078

  Drichoutis, Andreas C ^a   Nayga Jr , Rodolfo M ^b   Lazaridis, Panagiotis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Body Mass Index; Food expenditures; GMM; Instrumental variables

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; ELDERLY POPULATION; EXPENDITURE; FOOD QUALITY; GENDER DISPARITY; OBESITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84860881821     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-011-0453-4     Document Type: Article

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