| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24094 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24094 |
| Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality | |
| Hunt Allcott; Rebecca Diamond; Jean-Pierre Dubé; Jessie Handbury; Ilya Rahkovsky; Molly Schnell | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-12-18 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry, household moves to healthier neighborhoods, and purchasing patterns among households with identical local supply, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. Using a structural demand model, we find that exposing low-income households to the same products and prices available to high-income households reduces nutritional inequality by only nine percent, while the remaining 91 percent is driven by differences in demand. These findings counter the common notion that policies to reduce supply inequities, such as “food deserts,” could play an important role in reducing nutritional inequality. By contrast, the structural results predict that means-tested subsidies for healthy food could eliminate nutritional inequality at a fiscal cost of about 15 percent of the annual budget for the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies ; Regional and Urban Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24094 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581785 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hunt Allcott,Rebecca Diamond,Jean-Pierre Dubé,et al. Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality. 2017. |
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