Join DISSC and the Yale School of Management for a lunch talk with Leo Feler, PhD, Chief Economist at Numerator on:
The No-Hunger Games: Using Numerator Panel and Survey Data to Understand How GLP-1 Medications Are Changing Consumer Food Purchases
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
12 - 1:30 PM
School of Management
Room 2430 Baker Classroom
This will be a hybrid event. Indicate your preference below for either in-person or request a Zoom link.
Lunch will be served for in person attendees, please RSVP by 3/31/25.
This presentation examines the impact of GLP-1 medications, like Ozempic and Wegovy, on consumer food purchases. Drawing on comprehensive Numerator panel and survey data, Leo’s recent paper reveals how these appetite-suppressing medications are reshaping shopping behaviors across the United States.
During the presentation, Leo will also discuss his work at Numerator - a leading consumer intelligence company, providing insights into modern shopping behavior through their multi-channel consumer panel and survey platform. The Numerator data, which is available to Yale researchers through DISSC, captures detailed purchase information across retailers, including detailed product information, price data, and payment methods for diverse product categories from groceries to electronics, and pairs this data with detailed demographic and psychographic information about consumers to understand not only what consumers are buying, but who is doing the buying and why.
About:
Leo Feler is Chief Economist at Numerator, a consumer research firm, and Visiting Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research focuses on consumer behavior and economic forecasting. Leo was previously a Senior Economist at UCLA Anderson and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Hristakeva, Sylvia and Liaukonyte, Jura and Feler, Leo, The No-Hunger Games: How GLP-1 Medication Adoption is Changing Consumer Food Purchases (December 27, 2024). Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5073929 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5073929