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Can Taste and Nudging Impact Healthy Meal Consumption? Evidence from a Lunch Restaurant Field Experiment
Thunström, Linda; Nordström, Jonas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
Previous research shows that taste is one of the most important factors in determining food choices, and that food choices may be affected by ”nudging”. We analyze how taste, as determined by meal attributes, and nudging affects consumption of a healthy labeled meal. Our analysis is based on...
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Can Taste and Nudging Impact Healthy Meal Consumption? - Evidence from a Lunch Restaurant Field Experiment
Thunström, Linda; Nordström, Jonas - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2012
Previous research shows that taste is one of the most important factors in determining food choices, and that food choices may be affected by ”nudging”. We analyze how taste, as determined by meal attributes, and nudging affects consumption of a healthy labeled meal. Our analysis is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010585718
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Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers – Experimental Insights Into the Fight Against the Obesity Epidemic
Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt Rüdiger - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
We complement the empirical evidence on the sustainability of weight loss achieved through cash rewards and, for the first time, rigorously examine the potential of cash rewards to prevent weight cycling. In a three period randomized controlled trial, about 700 obese persons were first assigned...
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The Value of Familiarity: Effects of Experience, Knowledge and Signals on Willingness to Pay for a Public Good
Lariviere, Jacob; Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Hanley, Nick; … - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2013
This paper compares how increases in experience versus increases in knowledge about a public good affect willingness to pay (WTP) for its provision. This is challenging because while consumers are often certain about their previous experiences with a good, they may be uncertain about the...
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The value of familiarity: Effects of knowledge and objective signals on willingness to pay for a public good
LaRiviere, Jacob; Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Hanley, Nick; … - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 68 (2014) 2, pp. 376-389
We design and conduct a field experiment in which treated subjects receive a precise and objective signal regarding their knowledge about a public good before estimating their WTP for it. We find that the causal effect of objective signals about the accuracy of a subject׳s knowledge for a...
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Peer effects in learning HIV results
Godlonton, Susan; Thornton, Rebecca - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 118-129
How do neighbors positively or negatively influence individuals living in rural Malawi to learn their HIV results? Using data of location of homes and distance to neighbors, we measure the social network effects of neighbors' learning their HIV results on individuals own learning. Using the fact...
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HIV testing, subjective beliefs and economic behavior
Thornton, Rebecca L. - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 300-313
This paper examines the effects of learning HIV status on economic behavior among rural Malawians. According to economic life-cycle models, if learning HIV results is informative about additional years of life, being diagnosed HIV-positive or negative should predict changes in consumption,...
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Discounting and confidence
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011
The paper analyzes the discount rate under uncertainty. The analysis complements the probabilistic characterization of … uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth ambiguity aversion as well as … general class of preferences for which uncertainty implies a reduction of the discount rate. It also characterizes how the …
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Subjective risk, confidence, and ambiguity
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2009
his confidence in the uncertainty assessment of a particular setting. …
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Discounting and confidence
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011
The paper analyzes the discount rate under uncertainty. The analysis complements the probabilistic characterization of … uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth ambiguity aversion as well as … general class of preferences for which uncertainty implies a reduction of the discount rate. It also characterizes how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676464