Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177009 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11205
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We document considerable within-person (over time) variation in diet quality that is not fully explained by responses to fluctuations in the economic environment. We propose a two-selves model that provides a structural interpretation to this variation, in which food choices are a compromise between a healthy and an unhealthy self, each with well-behaved preferences. We show that the data are consistent with this model using revealed preference methods. The extent of self-control problems is higher among younger and lower income consumers, though this is overstated if we do not control for responses to fluctuations in the economic environment. Our results are intuitively related to stated attitudes on self-control.
Subjects: 
two-selves model
self-control
revealed preferences
JEL: 
C14
D12
D90
I12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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