Diet and Health Capital: An American Case Study

Authors

Matthew J. Klein, University of ChicagoFollow

Abstract

This paper begins to model diet's contribution to national stocks of Health Capital as defined in Kenneth Arrow et al.'s (2012) "Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth" by developing a set of equations that link the diet of a nation’s average citizen to that nation’s per capita welfare over time. The model is applied to the American diet from 2005 to 2009. This research finds that even a small change in diet can have a large impact in whether or not a nation is sustainable over time.

Recommended Citation

Klein, Matthew J. (2013) "Diet and Health Capital: An American Case Study," Undergraduate Economic Review: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 3.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer/vol10/iss1/3