In my over three decades of work in the field of food and nutrition, I have participated in many efforts that seek new policy initiatives in the hopes that these programs can curb rates of obesity and chronic disease and help consumers make healthier dietary choices. Because of the profound effect that many of these policies have on consumers, the food environment, federal nutrition assistance ...

BACKGROUND All too often, health policy and management decisions are made without making use of or consulting with the best available research evidence, which can lead to ineffective and inefficient health systems. One of the main actors that can ensure the use of evidence to inform policymaking is researchers. The objective of this study is to explore Israeli health systems and policy research...

We develop a model of political accountability with sequential policy making. Consistent with empirical observations, equilibrium behavior by the policymaker overemphasizes the late stages of the policy-making process. The reason is that the overseer faces a political time inconsistency problem—she is tempted to revise her retention rule in the middle of the policy-making process. If the overse...