Ilya Rahkovsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 6057493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilya Rahkovsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilya |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahkovsky |
| SIGNATURE | RAHKOVSKY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Economic Research Service |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality
We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. We then estimate a structural model of grocery demand, using a new instrument exploiting the combination of grocery retail chains’ differing presence across ge…
Potential dietary outcomes of changing relative prices of healthy and less healthy foods
The Association Between Food Prices and the Blood Glucose Level of US Adults With Type 2 Diabetes
Objectives. We estimated the association between the price of healthy and less-healthy food groups and blood sugar among US adults with type 2 diabetes. Methods. We linked 1999–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey health information to food prices contained in the Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database. We regressed blood sugar levels on food prices from the previous calendar quarter, controlling for market region and a range of o…
Self-Management
For both clinical and economic reasons, the increasing number of persons living with chronic conditions represents a public health issue of growing importance. Emphasizing patient responsibility, and acting in concert with the provider community, self-management represents a promising strategy for treating chronic conditions—moving beyond education to teaching individuals to actively identify challenges and solve problems associated with their il…
Effects of the Guiding Stars Program on purchases of ready-to-eat cereals with different nutritional attributes
Food prices and blood cholesterol
Self-Management
For both clinical and economic reasons, the increasing number of persons living with chronic conditions represents a public health issue of growing importance. Emphasizing patient responsibility, and acting in concert with the provider community, self-management represents a promising strategy for treating chronic conditions—moving beyond education to teaching individuals to actively identify challenges and solve problems associated with their il…
Effects of the Guiding Stars Program on purchases of ready-to-eat cereals with different nutritional attributes
The Association Between Food Prices and the Blood Glucose Level of US Adults With Type 2 Diabetes
Objectives. We estimated the association between the price of healthy and less-healthy food groups and blood sugar among US adults with type 2 diabetes. Methods. We linked 1999–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey health information to food prices contained in the Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database. We regressed blood sugar levels on food prices from the previous calendar quarter, controlling for market region and a range of o…
Potential dietary outcomes of changing relative prices of healthy and less healthy foods
Food prices and blood cholesterol
Effects of the Guiding Stars Program on purchases of ready-to-eat cereals with different nutritional attributes
The Association Between Food Prices and the Blood Glucose Level of US Adults With Type 2 Diabetes
Objectives. We estimated the association between the price of healthy and less-healthy food groups and blood sugar among US adults with type 2 diabetes. Methods. We linked 1999–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey health information to food prices contained in the Quarterly Food-at-Home Price Database. We regressed blood sugar levels on food prices from the previous calendar quarter, controlling for market region and a range of o…
Self-Management
For both clinical and economic reasons, the increasing number of persons living with chronic conditions represents a public health issue of growing importance. Emphasizing patient responsibility, and acting in concert with the provider community, self-management represents a promising strategy for treating chronic conditions—moving beyond education to teaching individuals to actively identify challenges and solve problems associated with their il…
Potential dietary outcomes of changing relative prices of healthy and less healthy foods
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality
We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. We then estimate a structural model of grocery demand, using a new instrument exploiting the combination of grocery retail chains’ differing presence across ge…
Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (4 works) · Food Science (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works)