Experimental economics shows how food price policies may improve diet while increasing socioeconomic inequalities in nutrition
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Keywords
FOOD PRICE; NUTRITION POLICY; PUBLIC POLICY; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL QUALITY; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2012-01-03 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-CBE-2012-01-03 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2012-01-03 (Experimental Economics)
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