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Breaking Habits: The Effect of the French Vending Machine Ban on School Snacking and Sugar Intakes

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  • Sara Capacci
  • Mario Mazzocchi
  • Bhavani Shankar

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This paper estimates the effect of the 2005 vending machine ban in French secondary schools on nutrient intakes and on the frequency of morning snacking at school. Using data before and after the ban, and exploiting the discontinuity associated with the age†dependent exposure to the ban, we specify a difference†in†differences regression discontinuity design. Since the relationship between age†at†interview and school level is not precise, we introduce fuzziness in the model. We find that the ban has generated a 10†gram reduction in sugar intakes from morning snacks at school, and a significant reduction in the frequency of these morning snacks. However, we find no evidence that the intervention affects total daily intakes, and our results are suggestive of compensation effects.

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  • Sara Capacci & Mario Mazzocchi & Bhavani Shankar, 2018. "Breaking Habits: The Effect of the French Vending Machine Ban on School Snacking and Sugar Intakes," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 37(1), pages 88-111, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jpamgt:v:37:y:2018:i:1:p:88-111
    DOI: 10.1002/pam.22032
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    1. Carrieri, Vincenzo & Principe, Francesco, 2022. "WHO and for how long? An empirical analysis of the consumers’ response to red meat warning," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    2. Mazzocchi, Mario & Capacci, Sara & Biondi, Beatrice, 2022. "Causal inference on the impact of nutrition policies using observational data," Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), vol. 11(1), April.
    3. Cátia Silva & Beatriz Pereira & Gabriela Figueiredo & Pedro Rosário & José Carlos Núñez & Paula Magalhães, 2023. "Self-Efficacy to Regulate Eating Behaviors Scale for Children: A Validation Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(4), pages 1-11, February.
    4. C. M. Dieteren & I. Bonfrer & W. B. F. Brouwer & J. Exel, 2023. "Public preferences for policies promoting a healthy diet: a discrete choice experiment," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 24(9), pages 1429-1440, December.
    5. Rachel Griffith & Martin O'Connell & Kate Smith & Rebekah Stroud, 2020. "What's on the Menu? Policies to Reduce Young People's Sugar Consumption," Fiscal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 41(1), pages 165-197, March.
    6. Fattore, Giovanni & Federici, Carlo & Drummond, Michael & Mazzocchi, Mario & Detzel, Patrick & Hutton, Zsuzsa V & Shankar, Bhavani, 2021. "Economic evaluation of nutrition interventions: Does one size fit all?," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 125(9), pages 1238-1246.

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