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The Role Of Snap And Habit Formation On Household Consumption Behavior, Shaheer Burney
The Role Of Snap And Habit Formation On Household Consumption Behavior, Shaheer Burney
Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics
This collection of essays examines the impact of two antecedents of household food consumption: SNAP and habit formation to nutrients. Household food choice invariably plays a substantial role in health outcomes such as obesity. Low-income households may be especially vulnerable to obesity as they face a more restricted set of food choices due to income constraints and may have less information on healthy eating relative to high-income households. This dissertation unravels this dynamic by providing causal estimates of the effect of two major determinants of food choice.
Chapter 2 and chapter 3 test the impact of SNAP participation on consumption …