In this article, we use count data regression with sample selection to analyze the effects and degree of moral hazard in demand for visits to physicians among groups of individuals with similar body mass index (BMI). Our results suggest that the effect of moral hazard on the demand for visits to doctors is increasing in BMI for men and for overweight and obese women. Moral hazard is highest amo…
Our findings hold some promise for using honesty priming to mitigate hypothetical bias in hypothetical choice experiments. This is an important finding considering that it is not always possible to conduct a choice experiment non-hypothetically as discussed above. Our finding implies that if it is not feasible to conduct a choice experiment non-hypothetically, then one could potentially consid…
Household store choices could depend not only on store marketing characteristics and household demographic characteristics but also on physical availability of different types of retail stores. The role of the latter in affecting the probability of patronizing a specific type of food store, when purchasing fruits and vegetables, is the focus of this study. Our results suggest that availabil…
In this study,we examine the food environment facing low-income urban and rural communities in Arkansas over the 2004–2010 period.We find no meaningful evidence that urban communities with higher minority populations or communities with lower median income face less access to grocery stores.While urban minority areas were more likely to be classified as food deserts, the effect was small and…