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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
choices may be affected by ”nudging”. We analyze how taste, as determined by meal attributes, and nudging affects consumption … sales of the healthy labelled meal, and its market share, is greatly impacted by its taste. Nudging, as in order of display … healthier food choices, such as information, nudging and food tax reforms. …
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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
choices may be affected by ”nudging”. We analyze how taste, as determined by meal attributes, and nudging affects consumption … sales of the healthy labelled meal, and its market share, is greatly impacted by its taste. Nudging, as in order of display … healthier food choices, such as information, nudging and food tax reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010585718
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Heterogeneous treatment effects and mechanisms in information-based environmental policies: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Ferraro, Paul J.; Miranda, Juan José - In: Resource and Energy Economics 35 (2013) 3, pp. 356-379
Policymakers often rely on non-pecuniary, information-based programs to achieve social objectives. Using data from a water conservation information campaign implemented as a randomized controlled trial, we estimate heterogeneous household responses. Understanding such heterogeneity is important...
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Managerial ownership and urban water utilities efficiency in Uganda
Mbuvi, Dorcas; Tarsim, Achraf - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of the early 1980s neoliberalistic reform strategies in urban water distribution in developing countries. It examines in particular, the technical efficiency of two heterogeneous urban water utility-groups in Uganda. Performance is considered in light of the key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712129
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Managerial ownership and urban water utilities efficiency in Uganda
Mbuvi, Dorcas; Tarsim, Achraf - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of the early 1980s neoliberalistic reform strategies in urban water distribution in developing countries. It examines in particular, the technical efficiency of two heterogeneous urban water utility-groups in Uganda. Performance is considered in light of the key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195545
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Dynamic of economic referentials of public action: participation of actors in definition of collective choice (electric and water public utilities case study) (In French)
ISLA, Anne - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2006
This paper discusses the economic referentials which underlie public intervention. First part presents our institutional approach. This one goes away from works based on rules as constraints or contracts between individualities. Our approach is based on rules as relations between actors which...
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The Carrot or the Stick: Water Allocation Strategies for Uzbekistan
Zaikin, Andrey; Espinola-Arredondo, Ana - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2012
Irrigation water is a constrained common-pool resource in Uzbekistan that leads to an increasing competition over its allocation among farmers. We examine how the management of the commons in this region affects individual strategic behavior. We conduct an experiment with farmers from Uzbekistan...
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An Excessive Development of Green Products
Espinola-Arredondo, Ana; Munoz-Garcia, Felix - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2012
This paper examines firms? incentives to develop a new (green) product,which might compete against the traditional pollutant (brown) product that the? firm sells. We show that in equilibrium more than one?firm might develop the green good, but such an equilibrium outcome is not necessarily...
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Crowding-in, crowding-out and over-crowding: The interaction between price and quantity based instruments and intrinsic motivation
Perino, Grischa; Panzone, Luca A.; Swanson, Timothy - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2011
We conduct a field experiment involving real purchasing decisions in a large supermarket chain to test the effect of different regulatory interventions aiming to induce a more climateâ€friendly diet on intrinsic motivation. Focusing on shoppers who prefer the dirty variety, we compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854411
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Wallflowers Doing Good: Field and Lab Evidence of Heterogeneity in Reputation Concerns
Jones, Daniel; Linardi, Sera - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - 2012
An extensive literature on reputation signaling has focused on the desire for positive reputation. In our paper we provide field and lab evidence that some individuals are averse to any form of reputation; this aversion correlates with gender in a prosocial setting. We formalize our hypotheses...
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