This chapter reviews how the literature on trade in agricultural and food products has
developed over the last 20 years. Its evolution has been heavily influenced by several …

German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their
reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring …

Forseveral decades, obesity has been a major public health and public policy issue
involving high private and social costs. The literature on the causes of obesity has identified …

In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we
match data on Mexican food imports from the US with anthropometric and food expenditure …

This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as a potential driving force of
risky health behaviors. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate …

We examine sources of regional variation in ambulatory care utilization in Germany. We
exploit patient migration to examine which share of regional variation in ambulatory care …

Some harm reduction strategies encourage individuals to switch from a harmful addictive
good to a less harmful addictive good; examples include e-cigarettes (substitutes for …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and it poses negative
externalities to health services. To shed light on the role of parents, we elicit parental beliefs …

We use the separation and later reunification of Germany after World War II to show that a
political regime shapes time preferences of its residents. Using two identification strategies …

The food industry has confronted, in recent years, numerous issues including meeting a food
demand for individual well-being in a sufficient and healthy manner, also due to the effects …