Digestible information: The impact of Multiple Traffic Light nutritional labeling in a developing country
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Keywords
Nutritional labeling; Developing Countries; Experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- 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-CBE-2017-06-18 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2017-06-18 (Experimental Economics)
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