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Title: Time Use and Food Consumption

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: People are getting fat. The rise in obesity rate has been particularly pronounced in the United States since the middle of the 1970s, but has by now extended into many other areas of the world. Several sources of technological change have been singled out as potential explanations for why people have been gaining so much weight. Increased productivity in agriculture has lowered the relative price of food (Darius Lakdwalla, Tomas Philipson, and Jayanta Bhattacharya 2005) while innovations in food processing have reduced the time cost of preparing food (David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, and Jesse M. Shapiro 2003). Technological change has also affected how people spend their time, in a way that may systematically have reduced calories expended. First, physically less demanding jobs in the service sector have replaced physically more demanding jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Second, the allocation of time across different activities has changed dramatically . . .

Url: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.99.2.170

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Authors: Bertrand, Marianne; Schanzenbach, Diane W.

Periodical (Full): American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings

Issue: 2

Volume: 99

Pages: 170-176

Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Health, Other

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