Association between total diet cost and diet quality is limited

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-68

  Carlson, Andrea ^a   Dong, Diansheng ^a   Lino, Mark ^b  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion CNPP   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of food; Diet quality; HEI 2005; NHANES; Random effects model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904972724     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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