Behavioural economics, policy interventions and food

David Just

Chapter 9 in A Modern Guide to Food Economics, 2022, pp 193-214 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Behavioral economics has a unique relationship with policy targeting food choice, focusing heavily on the development of effective interventions and very little on the development of new behavioral theory. In this chapter I document the set of tools used to create behavioral economic interventions to address food choice with a public health and public policy focus. A thorough discussion of the broad set of theoretical models of food behavior are presented, with some short discussion of their application. The chapter also gives a brief overview of empirical methods and how these influence intervention design and subsequent evidence. Using prior works in behavioral economics generally and food consumer behavior specifically, I synthesize a systematic approach to generate behavioral interventions in the food consumption space. An example intervention is developed to illustrate this systematic method.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781800372047/9781800372047.00017.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20022_9

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().