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AbstractWe estimate the impact of vitamin supplement intake, lifestyle, health indicators, food culture, and demographics on diet quality outcomes as measured by the Healthy Eating Index–2005 (HEI). Our data consists of U.S. adults who participated in the 2003–2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Alternative instrumental variable estimators explicitly address issues of endogeneity and complex sample design. Our empirical analysis demonstrates that diet quality is strongly interrelated with food culture. We suggest that vitamin consumption serves as another marker for healthy eating. This finding emphasizes the need to employ economic modeling when developing public policy to reduce obesity.

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Tobacco consumption is a serious health concern and a major problem in India due to its devastating impact to the poor section of society. Effective control on tobacco use must be the priority, both as an approach to eradicate poverty and a health concern. Use of tobacco is deeply entrenched as a cultural practice as it is consumed in different forms. This study is aimed to discuss the economic impact on tobacco use in India along with adverse health consequences. In order to fulfil this objective, this study is based on secondary data collected from various sources like recent studies published in peer-reviewed journals, government reports, records, and media sources. Tobacco consumption is constantly rising irrespective of having tobacco control policy. More aggressive and popular anti-tobacco campaigns are required to improve public awareness of harms caused by tobacco and active engagements of health experts and worksites to encourage tobacco cessation. Either consumed smoke less or as smoke, tobacco is toxic to human body. Tobacco kills over 6.4 million people every year globally, and death toll is rising significantly. Tobacco consumption has been associated with different factors like culture, geographical changes, and other factors. Tobacco was once known as a taboo. With the commercialization and advancements of modern world, it has been common among adults and teenagers.

This volume links the abstract theory of demand with its econometric implementation. Exercises lead the reader from elementary utility maximization to the most sophisticated recent techniques, highlighting the main steps in the historical evolution of the subject. The first part presents a brief discussion of duality and flexible forms, and in particular of Deaton and Muellbauer's ``almost ideal demand system''. Part two includes the author's work on true wage indexes, and on intertemporal utility maximization.

In 1899, MIT chemist Ellen H. Richards (1842–1911) instigated a series of annual "Lake Placid Conferences" (1899–1908) that became known as the foundation of the home economics movement. Richards's first interest was in improving the household's well-being by using sanitary and nutrition sciences, an objective that was passed on to the movement. However, by the 1920s, home economists rather identified their field of expertise as the "science of consumption," emphasizing the idea of "rational consumption." My aim in this article is to give an account of how this shift in focus came about, by telling the story of the home economics movement founded by Richards. I examine how the movement problematized consumption by highlighting its relationship, and perception of itself, regarding economics. I argue that the concept of consumption was central to the structuring of the movement from its beginning and allowed home economists to claim it as their field of expertise because, as they believed, economists were not addressing the issue.

AbstractThis paper reviews the evolution of the field of environment and development over the last two decades. I argue that a central concern of the field has been the relation between natural resource use, income and growth, under the institutional and market conditions that prevail in developing countries. Particular attention is paid to the demographic and other drivers of change in the asset base, the linkages between poverty, property rights and the allocation of natural resources, the valuation of environmental assets and investment of resource rents, and the development of policies for managing environmental externalities and environmental public goods. I consider how the balance between topics and the treatment of individual topics has changed over time, and indicate how the field might be expected to move in the future.