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More apples less chips? The effect of school fruit schemes on the consumption of junk food

We use scanner data of supermarket sales to investigate the effects of the EU School Fruit campaign, conducted in a sample of primary schools in the city of Rome during 2010 and 2011, on the consumption of unhealthy snacks. We allocate supermarkets to treatment and control groups depending on whether they are located or not near treated schools and estimate the causal effect of the program by comparing the changes in the sales of snacks in treated stores with the changes in control stores. We find evidence that the campaign reduced the consumption of unhealthy snacks bought in stores located in high income areas. No effect is found in poorer areas. Repeated treatment does not strengthen the effects of the program.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6496

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Thema
EU School Fruit campaign
junk food
Rome
Schüler
Konsumentenverhalten
Snackartikel
Rom
Italien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Brunello, Giorgio
De Paola, Maria
Labartino, Giovanna
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2012

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2012080812405
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Brunello, Giorgio
  • De Paola, Maria
  • Labartino, Giovanna
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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