Are fruit and vegetable voucher policies cost-effective?

Olivier de Mouzon, Vincent Réquillart, Louis-Georges Soler () and Jean Dallongeville
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Olivier de Mouzon: GREMAQ - Groupe de recherche en économie mathématique et quantitative - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Louis-Georges Soler: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Jean Dallongeville: Institut Pasteur de Lille - Pasteur Network (Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur)

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Abstract: We quantify the economic and health effects of a fruit and vegetable (FV) voucher policy designed for increasing FV consumption among low-income consumers. The analysis combined two models: an economic model which predicts how FV consumption is affected by a change in policy, and a health model which evaluates the impact of a change in FV consumption in terms of death avoided and life-years saved. We find that targeted FV voucher policies can be more cost-effective than non-targeted policies based on tax decreases, but only when the targeted policy is focused narrowly on the lowest income consumers.

Date: 2012
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Published in European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2012, 39 (5), pp.771-795. ⟨10.1093/erae/jbs013⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbs013

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