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Abstract
As the increasing prevalence of obesity in the world, how to prevent increasing body
weight has became important policy issue. This paper addresses this issue using the
behavioral economic models to empirically test food consumption behaviors and
self-control problem. In contrast to replying on experimental evidence of the
behavioral economic studies, age cohort data are constructed for households in
Taiwan and food away from home and several categories of food consumption at
home are recognized. Results show that self-control problem are evident for food
away from home, and the effects are more pronounced for younger age cohorts. In
contrast, staple and secondary food consumption at home are more stable across
life-time periods and no self-control problem is evident.