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Supply/demand is a feedback system. Both are the cause. When trying to change a feedback system, you don't look for a root cause because it's literally an inf

Supply/demand is a feedback system. Both are the cause. When trying to change a feedback system, you don't look for a root cause because it's literally an infinite loop. Instead you either look for a way to break the loop, or look for a variable you can change that has the best ROI. In the case of a food desert within a residential area, it's probably a lot easier to boost demand by artificially increasing supply, rather than the other way around.

barry-cotter 6y ago
Thankfully the researchers considered that point. From the above abstract > Using a structural demand model, we find that exposing low-income households to the same food availability and prices experienced by high-income households would reduce nutritional inequality by only 9%, while the remaining 91% is driven by differences in demand. On the topic more generally > Dr. Sturm found no relationship between what type of food students said they ate, what they weighed, and the type of food within a mile and a half of their homes. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of-food-deserts-and-obesity-challenged-in-studies.html?_r=1&hp https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-o... Original study > School and Residential Neighborhood Food Environment and Diet Among California Youth > No robust relationship between food environment and consumption is found. A few significant results are sensitive to small modeling changes and more likely to reflect chance than true relationships. https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2811%2900849-X/abstract https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2811%2900849-X...