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Thought for Food: Nutritional Information and Educational Disparities in Diet

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  • Hale Koç
  • Hans van Kippersluis

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Higher-educated individuals are healthier and live longer than their lower-educated peers. One reason is that lower-educated individuals tend to consume lower-quality diets, but it is not fully understood why they do so. We designed a discrete-choice experiment to investigate how provision of nutritional information affects dietary choices of lower- and higher-educated individuals. We find that nutritional knowledge is responsible for a large part of the disparity in dietary choices. However, even when faced with the most explicit nutritional information, lower-educated individuals still state choices that suggest a lower value for negative health consequences.

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  • Hale Koç & Hans van Kippersluis, 2017. "Thought for Food: Nutritional Information and Educational Disparities in Diet," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 11(4), pages 508-552.
  • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jhucap:doi:10.1086/694571
    DOI: 10.1086/694571
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    1. Anoek Castelein & Dennis Fok & Richard Paap, 2020. "A multinomial and rank-ordered logit model with inter- and intra-individual heteroscedasticity," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 20-069/III, Tinbergen Institute.
    2. Maria Klonowska-Matynia, 2022. "Human Capital as a Source of Energy for Rural Areas’ Socio-Economic Development—Empirical Evidence for Rural Areas in Poland," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(21), pages 1-31, November.
    3. Anoek Castelein & Dennis Fok & Richard Paap, 2020. "Heterogeneous variable selection in nonlinear panel data models: A semiparametric Bayesian approach," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 20-061/III, Tinbergen Institute.

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