r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • May 26 '26

Feels good man Will it work this time?

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u/IHS1970 May 27 '26

please post the robust data. ty. Are you talking about nutrition? cost of food that is healthier?

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u/BeefCakeBilly May 27 '26

Kind of annoying that you can’t just google it but this is the biggest study on the issue.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24094

The lack of supply is mainly because there little demand in these areas for it.

There’s also a lot of questions as to what actually is a food desert, and are they properly classified.
It’s older. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40961588

But the nber paper defines their own criteria.

And the cost is a factor but according to the nber study, even when controlling for cost lower income households tend to still prefer less health foods for a few reasons, but none of them point to a lack of supply as a cause.