Consumer demand for diet quality: Evidence from the healthy eating index

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 301-319

  Gao, Zhifeng ^a   Yu, Xiaohua ^b   Lee, Jonq Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demand; Diet quality; Healthy eating index; Translog cost function

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DIET; FOOD MARKET; FOOD QUALITY; MARKET CONDITIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879469783     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2012.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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