We are what we eat: how and why governments intervene in food markets

Rachel Griffith interviewed by Viv Davies, 26 May 2014

Diet-related chronic diseases are a major public health concern. Addressing this concern is a key government policy objective. This Vox Talk argues that the impact of these policies on diet and health outcomes depends on how consumers adapt their consumption behaviour and on how firms respond in terms of the prices they set and the foods they offer.

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Topics:  Health economics

Tags:  obesity, junk food, Commodity prices, food

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Rachel Griffith

Research Director, IFS; Professor of Economics, University of Manchester; CEPR Research Fellow

Events

  • China Economics Summer Institute (CESI)
    17 - 18 August 2019 / Peking University, Beijing / Chinese University of Hong Kong – Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development at Stanford University, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, BREAD, NBER and CEPR
  • CALL FOR PAPER - Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets
    19 - 20 August 2019 / Vienna, Palais Coburg / WU Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK)
  • SALENTO MACRO MEETINGS 2019
    29 - 30 August 2019 / Galatina, Italy /
  • Sustainable Development Conference 2019
    4 - 5 September 2019 / Roma Eventi, Congress Center, Pontificia Università Gregoriana Piazza della Pilotta, 4, Rome, Italy / European Center of Sustainable Development , CIT University
  • CIMS Summer School and Conference 2019
    9 - 14 September 2019 / Guildford, Surrey, UK / The University of Surrey

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