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study the U.S. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which gives vouchers for healthy …
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This paper examines the effect of two different soda taxes on consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children … in Europe: Hungary imposed a Public Health Product Tax (PHPT) on several unhealthy products in 2011. France introduced …
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This paper examines the effect of soda taxes on the consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children in Europe …: Hungary imposed a "Public Health Product Tax" on several unhealthy products including sodas in 2011. France introduced solely …
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We present findings from a field experiment conducted at 40 elementary schools involving 8,000 children and 400 …,000 child-day observations, which tested whether providing short-run incentives can create habit formation in children. Over a …. Relative to an average baseline rate of 39%, providing small incentives doubled the fraction of children eating at least one …
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We use detailed data from a large retail panel to study the effect of participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on the composition and nutrient content of foods purchased for at-home consumption. We find that the effect of SNAP participation is small relative to the...
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Underlying mechanisms of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s (SNAP) impact on diet quality are poorly understood. Based on data from the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS), we find that SNAP does not significantly improve diet quality. Two hypotheses...
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Fungibility of money is a central assumption in the theory of consumer choice: any unit of money is substitutable for another. This implies that the composition of income or wealth is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many...
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interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey data, we find that, while the two traits are … of control and health is reduced once we control for self-control, suggesting that self-control mediates at least part of … physical health. …
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