When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects in Food Choice

We are grateful to Tristin Ganter, Justin Holz, and the rest of the Behavioral and Experimental Economics (BEE) Research Group at the University of Chicago for conducting the experiment, to Meera Mahadevan and Irvin Rojas for their outstanding research assistance, and to Michele Belot, Marianne Bitler, Kitt Carpenter, David Chan, Silke Forbes, Peter Kuhn, Pedro Rey Biel, Scott Shane and seminar participants at the NBER Summer Institute, University of Michigan, University of Chicago Harris School, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Bocconi University, and the World Bank for their comments. We have received funding from the University of Michigan, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and Case Western Reserve University to carry out this research. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.