Supermarket access and childhood bodyweight: Evidence from store openings and closings

D Zeng, MR Thomsen, RM Nayga Jr… - Economics & Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Retail food environment is increasingly considered in relation to obesity. This study
investigates the impacts of access to supermarkets, the primary source of healthy foods in …

[PDF][PDF] Moving Toward a Continuous Local Food Access Measure

JH Dorfman, JD Grant, CG Gundersen - 2023 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
We examine a variety of measures hypothesized to have impacts on food security, utilizing
them to develop insight into which food initiatives and related policies are most likely to …

Uncertainty in Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Community Food Security Assessments

JK Carr, SA Fontanella, ML Kaiser - Journal of Hunger & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this paper is to provide insights into the impact of missing price data in food
security assessments. We find that the treatment of missing data plays an important role in …

Brand variety, access to convenience and housing prices–empirical evidence of convenience stores from Taiwan

HH Chang - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2023 - Springer
Recent studies have documented that access to food stores is an important determinant of
housing prices. However, these studies ignore the role of brand variety among food outlets …

Nutrition access, income, and race

JJ McCluskey - American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
Keywords: access to healthful food; food choice; retail-food environment EN access to
healthful food food choice retail-food environment 493 501 9 02/21/22 20220301 NES …

Retailer proximity and nutrition program redemptions: evidence from the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer For Children Program

J Furey, JA Klerman, T Grindal - … Economic Perspectives and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Although nearly all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are
redeemed, a moderate share of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant …

Changes in the local food‐at‐home environment, supplemental nutrition assistance program participation, and dietary quality: Evidence from FoodAPS

R Volpe, X Cai, M Tseng, E Zeballos… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We study dietary quality via grocery purchases among US households using the USDA's
FoodAPS data. Using data from Nielsen IQ TDLinx, we measure changes in the local food …

Enhancing understanding of food purchasing patterns in the Northeast US using multiple datasets

A Palmer, A Bonanno, K Clancy, C Cho… - … Agriculture and Food …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Due to correlations between purchasing patterns and diet disparities, differences in food
shopping patterns and strategies across income levels and other socio-economic …

Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Food Pantries and Food Retailer Profitability

T Kopp, L Chenarides - Available at SSRN 3710584, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examines the extent to which the presence of food pantries diverts food sales
from retail grocers. Hunger-relief programs, such as food services provided through food …

The association between food outlet accessibility and market competition to household food expenditures: Empirical evidence from the convenience store industry in …

HH Chang, B Lee - Agribusiness, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many studies document the importance of food outlet accessibility on household food
expenditures. However, the role of market competition between commercial food outlets …