Five-a-day, a price to pay: An evaluation of the UK program impact accounting for market forces

Sara Capacci () and Mario Mazzocchi

Journal of Health Economics, 2011, vol. 30, issue 1, 87-98

Abstract: We provide an ex-post assessment of the UK 5-a-day information campaign, where the positive effects of information are disentangled from potentially conflicting price dynamics. Using 4 years of data from the Expenditure and Food Survey between 2002 and 2006, we estimate that the 5-a-day program has lifted fruit and vegetable consumption by 0.3 portions, on average. We also provide quantitative evidence of a differentiated impact by income group, ranging from 0.2 to 0.7 portions. All impacts are larger than those observed by simply comparing pre-policy and post-policy intakes.

Keywords: Policy; evaluation; Almost; Ideal; Demand; System; Fruit; and; vegetable; prices; Expenditure; and; Food; Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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