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The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) imposed significant changes in the information about calories and …-in-differences method. We compare the change before and after the implementation of NLEA in body weight among those who use labels when food …
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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
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This paper estimates the impact on consumer behavior of a firm's voluntary disclosure of information. Specifically, we study the impact of Starbucks' disclosure of calorie information on its menu boards in June 2013. Using data on over 250,000 consumers' visits to specific restaurant chains, we...
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' food choices--there is almost no change in purchases of beverage calories. There is no impact on Starbucks profit on …
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We study the effects of receipts that include personalized ordering suggestions designed to reduce fat and calorie consumption on purchasing behavior at a restaurant chain. We find that customers, in the aggregate, made most of the item substitutions that were encouraged by the messages, such as...
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This paper tests whether income affects the body weight and clinical weight classification of elderly Americans using a natural experiment that led otherwise identical retirees to receive significantly different Social Security payments based on their year of birth. We exploit this natural...
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and the Nutrition Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Quantile regression methods are then used to forecast future …
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inequality that emphasize supply-side factors such as food deserts …
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This study examines the relationship between child weight and fast food and fruit and vegetable prices and the … availability of fast food restaurants, full-service restaurants, supermarkets, grocery stores and convenience stores. We estimate …. Data are drawn from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics combined with external food …
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market for another cultural good, food at restaurants, is roughly ten times larger than the markets for music and film. Using … TripAdvisor data on restaurant cuisines, along with Euromonitor data on overall and fast food expenditure, this paper calculates … most popular cuisines are Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, and American. Third, excluding fast food, the largest net …
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