Food, Economics, and Health

• Utgivningsdatum: 2012-10-18
• Mått: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
• Vikt: 338 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 234
• Förlag: OUP OXFORD
• ISBN: 9780199663910

• Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik
• Internationell ekonomi
• Agronomi
• Mikroekonomi

Alok Bhargava received his Ph.D. in econometrics from the London School of Economics in 1982. He has held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and University of Houston. Since 1989, he has been working on issues of nutrition, population health, child development, demography, physical anthropology, and epidemiology in developing and developed countries. Most of his publications on problems facing developing and developed countries have appeared in leading scholarly journals; his research is often cited in academic and policy forums and has influenced food policies in many settings.

Review from previous edition Integrating food behavior, health activities, educational investments, and demographic choices into a coherent measure of family and individual welfare is a daunting task. This volume by Alok Bhargava succeeds in doing so at three different levels. First, the empirical models and techniques are state-of-the-art, so applied econometricians will be happy. Second, the models incorporate accepted bio-physical relationships from the public health and medical communities, so biological scientists interested in health-nutrition linkages no longer feel left out from economists' analyses. And third, the food policy community now has a rigorous, empirically-based set of relationships that are amenable to public interventions. It is very good to have food policy analysis back on the research agenda in such an integrated and toughly empirical fashion.

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