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Food, Economics, and Health

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  • Bhargava, Alok

    (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston)

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Drawing on the author's extensive and varied research, this book provides readers with a firm grounding in the concepts and issues across several disciplines including economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of improving the design of food policies in the developed and developing world. Using longitudinal (panel) data from India, Bangladesh, Kenya, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Pakistan and extending the analytical framework used in economics and biomedical sciences to include multi-disciplinary analyses, Alok Bhargava shows how rigorous and thoughtful econometric and statistical analysis can improve our understanding of the relationships between a number of socioeconomic, nutritional, and behavioural variables on a number of issues like cognitive development in children and labour productivity in the developing world. These unique insights combined with a multi-disciplinary approach forge the way for a more refined and effective approach to food policy formation going forward. A chapter on the growing obesity epidemic is also included, highlighting the new set of problems facing not only developed but developing countries. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms to assist readers coming from a variety of disciplines.

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  • Bhargava, Alok, 2012. "Food, Economics, and Health," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199663910.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780199663910
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    1. Xavier Irz, 2010. "Modeling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data—with an application to Finland," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 41(3‐4), pages 293-304, May.
    2. Bhargava, Alok, 2013. "Iron status, malaria parasite loads and food policies: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 11(1), pages 108-112.
    3. Thi Huong Trinh & Christine Thomas-Agnan & Michel Simioni, 2016. "Calorie intake and income in China: new evidence using semiparametric modelling with generalized additive models," Post-Print hal-01515007, HAL.
    4. Bhargava, Alok, 2019. "Climate change, demographic pressures and global sustainability," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 33(C), pages 149-154.
    5. James Heckman & Flavio Cunha, 2007. "The Technology of Skill Formation," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 97(2), pages 31-47, May.
    6. Timmer, C. Peter, 2009. "Do Supermarkets Change the Food Policy Agenda?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 37(11), pages 1812-1819, November.
    7. James J. Heckman, 2007. "The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation," NBER Working Papers 13195, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    8. A. Mahendran, 2014. "Intervention of One Rupee Rice in PDS: Utilisation and Impact in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha States in India," Asian Journal of Agriculture and rural Development, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 4(7), pages 392-400, July.

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