The Economics of Health and Vitamin Consumption

Schroeter, Christiane; Anders, Sven; Carlson, Andrea

doi:10.1093/aepp/pps040

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“…More educated adults may purchase healthier foods for their family (Schroeter et al . ), therefore, positively affecting diet quality. As shown in Table , the average age of male and female household head are 46 years and 42 years, respectively.…”

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Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

Rupa

Umberger

Zeng

2019

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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This study investigates the possible mechanisms through which modern food markets may affect Vietnamese households’ dietary diversity and diet quality using data from a survey of 1,700 urban households with seven‐day food recall. We calculate Household Dietary Diversity Scores to measure dietary diversity, and use consumption frequencies of micronutrients (vitamin A and heme iron) and a macronutrient (protein) to create a household measure of diet quality. We estimate a Poisson regression model using a two‐step control function approach to address the potential endogeneity of our key explanatory variable, modern market food expenditure shares. Higher modern market food expenditure share is positively and significantly associated with consumption frequency of heme iron, but there are no significant associations with consumption of vitamin A and protein. We further explore indirect linkages between food expenditure shares and dietary diversity, which in turn, may be linked to household diet quality. Results from a system of equations show that the food expenditure share variable has no significant relationship with dietary diversity, but dietary diversity is positively and significantly associated with diet quality. Our results indicate that alone, policies which encourage ‘food market modernisation’ are not enough to improve diet quality in urban Vietnam.

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Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

Rupa

Umberger

Zeng

2019

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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“…More educated adults may also consider purchases of certain types of food perceived as "healthy", which may be relatively more expensive in Indonesia (e.g. fresh dairy and low fat meat products), to be an investment in their children's future (Huston and Finke 2003;Schroeter, Anders, and Carlson 2013).…”

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Examining the Relationship between the Use of Supermarkets and Over‐nutrition in Indonesia

Umberger

Minot

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American J Agri Economics

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This study examines the relationship between the use of modern food retailers and health outcomes, using data from a survey of 1180 urban households in Indonesia. The dependent variables include adult and child body-mass index (BMI) and the share of individuals overweight and obese. After controlling for individual and household characteristics and using standard and Lewbel instrumental variable approaches to control for unobservable characteristics, we do not find a statistically significant relationship between use of supermarkets and adult nutrition measures. On the other hand, there is mixed evidence for a negative effect of supermarkets on child nutrition, particularly for those in high-income households.

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“…Our analyses suggest that the ‘classic’ socio‐economic variables, that is, income, education and age, do not sufficiently explain the complex relationship between Canadian consumers’ nutrition knowledge, concerns about diet, health, obesity and food choice behaviour (Schroeter et al, ). We rather find that an individual's understanding of what constitutes healthy eating behaviour and frequent use of nutrition labelling information significantly influences their health awareness and diet.…”

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“…Our PS model specification includes variables that have been found to play a significant role in explaining food‐health related behaviours, perceptions and concerns (Schroeter, Anders, & Carlson, ). Table provides an overview of the variables included in the preferred PS model.…”

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Estimating the effects of nutrition label use on Canadian consumer diet‐health concerns using propensity score matching

Anders

Schroeter

2017

Int J Consumer Studies

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The overarching goal of nutrition labelling is to transform intrinsic credence attributes into searchable cues, which would enable consumers to make informed food choices at lower search costs.This study estimates the impact of nutrition label usage on Canadian consumers' (n 5 8,114) perceived diet-health concerns using alternative propensity score matching (PSM) techniques. We apply a series of tests and sensitivity analyses to overcome issues of endogeneity and selection bias frequently found in studies of diet-health behaviour and to validate the impact of exposure to nutrition facts labels for users vs. non-users. Our results support the notion that consumer uncertainty and related food-health concerns are linked to their information behaviour, but not in straightforward manner. Dominant subjective food attributes, such as taste, convenience and affordability, may in fact outweigh the benefits of information about healthier, alternative food choices. In order to change dietary health behaviour, food manufacturer and policy makers alike need to adopt communication instruments that better account for differences in preferences, shopping habits and overall usage patterns of nutrition labelling information. K E Y W O R D S health concerns, nutrition labelling, propensity score matching, self-selection bias, treatment effects wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ijcs Int J Consum Stud. 2017;41:534-544.

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The Economics of Health and Vitamin Consumption

Cited by 24 publications

References 45 publications

Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese households?

Examining the Relationship between the Use of Supermarkets and Over‐nutrition in Indonesia

Estimating the effects of nutrition label use on Canadian consumer diet‐health concerns using propensity score matching

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