Behavioral Economics, Food Assistance, and Obesity

David Just

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2006, vol. 35, issue 2, 12

Abstract: While there is mixed evidence of the impact of food assistance programs on obesity, there is general agreement that the food-insecure are at higher risk of obesity and obesity-related diseases. Food assistance programs, originally designed to overcome a lack of available food, now need to confront a very different problem: how to provide for the food-insecure while encouraging healthy lifestyles. This paper examines the potential to address these competing needs using traditional economic policies (manipulating information or prices) versus policies engaging behavioral economics and psychology.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.10220

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