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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

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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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Assessing the Efficiency of Mother-to-Child HIV Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries using Data Envelopment Analysis

Santos, Sérgio P.; Amado, Carla A.E.; Santos, Mauro F. - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2012

AIDS is one of the most significant health care problems worldwide. Due to the difficulty and costs involved in treating HIV, preventing infection is of paramount importance in controlling the AIDS epidemic. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of using Data Envelopment...

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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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Risk Preferences Under Extreme Poverty: A Field Experiment

Orozco, Gustavo Adolfo Caballero - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010

Until now, the dominant belief concerning the relationship between poverty and risk aversion is that the poor are more risk averse. If the poor are more risk averse, then they will choose "low risk–low return" activities that trap them in poverty. However, both empirical and experimental...

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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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