Food deserts and diet-related health outcomes of the elderly

Fitzpatrick, Katie; Greenhalgh-Stanley, Nadia; Ploeg, Michele Ver

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101747

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“…Several works have examined the diet quality of different populations over the past few years. Some show that improvements in diet quality correlate with increases in income (Huang et al , 2017; Tsiboe et al , 2018) while others draw connections between living conditions and food consumption (Fitzpatrick et al , 2019; Stifel and Minten, 2017), and some literatures explored the effect of programs about nutrition subsidy on nutrition, such as the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program (Wu et al , 2017) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the United States (Fitzpatrick et al , 2016). However, because diet quality is often endogenous to household characteristics and as households endogenously determine where to reside, it is difficult to disentangle the causal relationships between locations, income levels and diets.…”

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Effects of the poverty alleviation relocation program on diet quality among low-income households

Qiu

Leng

Feng

et al. 2020

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PurposeThis paper aims to examine impacts of the poverty alleviation relocation (PAR) program on diet quality of low-income households in China. We explore the impact mechanism of relocation on diet quality and the heterogeneous effects of different relocation modes.Design/methodology/approachA fixed effects model is constructed using panel data of 1126 low-income households collected over three years in eight provinces of China. The PAR program provides a natural experiment which dramatically changes the living conditions surrounding farmers. We are able to identify the causal effects of relocation on diet quality free from selection bias.FindingsThe empirical results show that the PAR program improves diet quality of low-income households and that better market access and increasing incomes induced by relocation play an important role in this improvement. Improved market access significantly reduces the over-consumption of staple foods, whereas higher income significantly reduces the intake divergences of non-staple foods. The impacts of different relocation modes on diet quality are highly heterogeneous.Practical implicationsOur findings indicate that the PAR program benefits diet quality of low-income households through greater market access and increases in total household income. Market improvements and food subsidies are conducive to improving the diet quality of the low income.Originality/valueDespite widespread evidences of healthy diets being associated with household environments and income, selection bias remains. This paper utilizes an exogenous program to explore the causal impacts of market access and family income on diet quality and to separate their different effects.

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Effects of the poverty alleviation relocation program on diet quality among low-income households

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Leng

Feng

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“…Studies have shown that the built environment characterized by the socioeconomic factors, including the presence, quantity, and accessibility of healthful food retailers, contributes to healthful food consumption (e.g., Laraia et al 2004; Fitzpatrick, Greenhalgh-Stanley, and Ver Ploeg 2015, 2019). Nelson et al (2001) find disparities in healthful food access across black and white neighborhoods.…”

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Neighborhood racial composition, income, and distance to grocery retailers in Seattle

Ware

Amin

Jessup

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Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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This article examines whether racial disparities exist in travel distances and travel times to grocery stores in Seattle, WA. In contrast to the findings of studies conducted in other metropolitan cities, Seattle, WA, has few food deserts. We find that disparities in travel distance and travel time to supermarkets vary with the percentage of specific racial and ethnic populations. Greater Asian populations in a census tract are associated with shorter travel distance to the grocery, low income, and low vehicle access. For the Hispanic population, a greater percentage in a census tract increases the predicted travel distances and travel times to grocery stores. Greater income in tracts with more Hispanic population is associated with a shorter distance, and those tracts with more Asian population are associated with a longer distance, possibly due to cultural differences in diet.

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“…Both geography and residential density, especially as they relate to differences in cost of living and local food environment, have been linked to variation in food insecurity status (Bartfeld and Dunifon ). These differences may be mitigated for households with easy access to transportation; owning a vehicle has been found to reduce food insecurity (Fitzpatrick and Ver Ploeg ), potentially due to its effect on expanding employment opportunities (Danziger et al ; Edin ). However, owning a vehicle has been identified as reducing a low‐income households' probability of receiving food assistance (Huang, Nam, and Wikoff ).…”

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Does Prior Government Assistance Reduce Food or Housing Assistance among Low‐Income and Food Insecure Households?

Nielsen¹,

Seay²,

Wilmarth³

2017

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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Despite extensive research into the receipt of government food and housing assistance separately, only limited evidence informs the possibility that the receipt of assistance for one basic need could reduce the need for assistance meeting another basic need. To investigate this possibility among food insecure and low-income households we examined four years of data from each of the 2004 and 2008 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Among low-income and food insecure households we found no evidence that one type of assistance reduced later receipt of the second type of assistance. Rather, results from conditional logistic regression models indicated that receiving one type of assistance was associated with a higher probability of receiving the second type of assistance, or that there was no relationship between the two types of assistance. Factors informing these results are discussed in the context of household help-seeking and government assistance.The task of acquiring sufficient food and shelter represent necessary and large recurring expenses that consume large portions of a household's budget, accounting for approximately 13% and 34%, respectively, of American households' expenditures in 2013 (USDA 2014a). These costs can be difficult to manage, particularly in the face of resource constraints. Making the task more challenging is that the two types of basic needs represent very different opportunities in the face of income or other resource constraints. Housing-related expenditures (e.g., rent or mortgage obligations, utility payments) are often fixed in the short run and tend to be forgone only in the presence of extreme crises. Outside of subsidized housing, where payments are directly linked to household income, even poor quality housing Robert B. Nielsen (rbnielsen@ches.ua.edu) is a Professor at

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Food deserts and diet-related health outcomes of the elderly

Cited by 22 publications

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Effects of the poverty alleviation relocation program on diet quality among low-income households

Effects of the poverty alleviation relocation program on diet quality among low-income households

Neighborhood racial composition, income, and distance to grocery retailers in Seattle

Does Prior Government Assistance Reduce Food or Housing Assistance among Low‐Income and Food Insecure Households?

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