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What you eat is what you are: risk attitudes, time preferences, and diet quality
[Ce que vous mangez est ce que vous êtes : attitudes à l'égard du risque, préférences temporelles et qualité de l'alimentation]

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  • Antoine Nebout

    (UMR PSAE - Paris-Saclay Applied Economics - AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Noemi Berlin

    (EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Florent Vieux

    (MS Nutrition [Marseille, France])

  • Sandrine Péneau

    (EREN [CRESS - U1153 / UMR_A 1125] - Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team | Equipe de Recherche en Epidémiologie Nutritionnelle - Université Sorbonne Paris Nord - CRESS (U1153 / UMR_A 1125) - Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics | Centre de Recherche Épidémiologie et Statistiques - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] - USPC - Université Sorbonne Paris Cité - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - UPCité - Université Paris Cité - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Nicole Darmon

    (UMR MoISA - Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement)

  • Emmanuel Kemel

    (GREGHEC - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Emmanuel Paroissien

    (UMR PSAE - Paris-Saclay Applied Economics - AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

Abstract

This paper explores the relationships between overall diet quality and attitudes toward risk and time using a general population survey. Our survey combines (i) a state-of-the-art food frequency questionnaire with (ii) a choice-based preference module to elicit individual risk and time preferences. The survey was administered to a representative sample of the French population. Using a Hierarchical Bayes framework, we jointly estimate individual risk aversion and impatience parameters. We show that risk and time preferences significantly explain individual heterogeneity in key aspects of diet quality, even after controlling for socio-demographic characteristics. We find that more impatient and more risk-seeking individuals have poorer overall diet quality, more impatient individuals have higher daily energy intake, and more risk-seeking individuals consume more alcohol.

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  • Antoine Nebout & Noemi Berlin & Florent Vieux & Sandrine Péneau & Nicole Darmon & Emmanuel Kemel & Emmanuel Paroissien, 2023. "What you eat is what you are: risk attitudes, time preferences, and diet quality [Ce que vous mangez est ce que vous êtes : attitudes à l'égard du risque, préférences temporelles et qualité de l'al," Working Papers hal-04187997, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-04187997
    DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4474126
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