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Economic assessment of nutritional recommendations: A comment.
- Source :
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Journal of Health Economics . May2019, Vol. 65, p43-47. 5p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This is a comment on the paper by Irz et al. (2015) in this journal, on nutritional recommendations. Irz et al. (2015) propose to compute the cost of a nutritional constraint as the consumer loss of surplus, derived from their observed choices. Introducing behavioral biases into an extended version of their model, I show that their proposed methodology implicitly assumes that consumer dietary choices do not involve any health considerations. The cost per quality-adjusted life year that they compute should be corrected by the size of the bias of consumers to be compared with benchmark evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01676296
- Volume :
- 65
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Health Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137825959
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.03.003