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Is There a Relationship Among Overall Nutritional Quality Index, Carbon Footprint and the Price of Food?

dc.contributor.authorLin, Qiumei
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Economicsen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinern/aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorMelvin L.Crossen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerMelvin L.Cross and Courtney Warden_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorJ.Stephen Clarken_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-14T14:29:05Z
dc.date.available2012-12-14T14:29:05Z
dc.date.issued2012-12-14
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the relationship among the overall nutritional quality index (ONQI), the carbon footprint and price of 90 different foods. The ONQI and carbon footprint measure the healthiness and environmental impact of a food, respectively. Two models are estimated. The first is a hedonic model of the food price and two characteristics: ONQI and carbon footprint. A positive relationship between price and carbon footprint is found, implying higher priced foods have a larger environmental impact. The second model is a regression of ONQI on price and carbon footprint. A negative, non-linear relationship between ONQI and carbon footprint is found. This implies there is a complementary relationship between the healthiness of food and its environmental impact. Both models show that healthier food is also higher priced. This could explain why poorer consumers are less healthy than richer consumers, and why taxing food would disproportionately impact the health of the poor.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/15831
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectOverall nutritional quality index, carbon footprint, priceen_US
dc.titleIs There a Relationship Among Overall Nutritional Quality Index, Carbon Footprint and the Price of Food?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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