ArticleAmerican economic journal. Applied economics2018
Diabetes and Diet: Purchasing Behavior Change in Response to Health Information.
Article in American economic journal. Applied economics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Dietary Responses to Non-Communicable Chronic Disease Diagnoses-A Scoping Review.International journal of general medicine · 2026Review
- Long-Term Health Improvements and Economic Performance Among Individuals With Diabetes.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
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- Effects of private health insurance on healthcare services during the MERS Pandemic: Evidence from Korea.Heliyon · 2023Article
- The effect of population-based blood pressure screening on long-term cardiometabolic morbidity and mortality in Germany: A regression discontinuity analysis.PLoS medicine · 2022Article
- Public health shocks, learning and diet improvement.Food policy · 2022Article
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Abstract
Individuals with obesity and related conditions are often reluctant to change their diet. Evaluating the details of this reluctance is hampered by limited data. I use household scanner data to estimate food purchase response to a diagnosis of diabetes. I use a machine learning approach to infer diagnosis from purchases of diabetes-related products. On average, households show significant, but relatively small, calorie reductions. These reductions are concentrated in unhealthy foods, suggesting they reflect real efforts to improve diet. There is some heterogeneity in calorie changes across households, although this heterogeneity is not well predicted by demographics or baseline diet, despite large correlations between these factors and diagnosis. I suggest a theory of behavior change which may explain the limited overall change and the fact that heterogeneity is not predictable.
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