Behavioral Economic Concepts To Encourage Healthy Eating in School Cafeterias: Experiments and Lessons From College Students
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Keywords
Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession;All these keywords.
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2010-02-05 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2010-02-05 (Education)
- NEP-EVO-2010-02-05 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2010-02-05 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2010-02-05 (Health Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2010-02-05 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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