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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Behavioral Economics, Nutrition & Health

John Cawley and Christopher J. Ruhm, Organizers

July 21, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel
University BC Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Tuesday, July 21


8:15 am


Coffee and pastries


8:45 am


Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ilya Rahkovsky, Economic Research Service, USDA
Molly Schnell, Princeton University
What Drives Nutritional Disparities? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum


9:45 am


Break


10:00 am


Michele Belot, University of Edinburgh
Jonathan James, University of Bath
Patrick Nolen, University of Essex
Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools


11:00 am


Break


11:15 am


Manuela Angelucci, University of Michigan
Silvia Prina, Case Western Reserve University
Heather Royer, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER
Anya Savikhin Samek, University of Wisconsin, Madison
When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects in Food Choice


12:15 pm


Adjourn and lunch