Browsing the aisles or browsing the app? how online grocery shopping is changing what we buy

SC Chintala, J Liaukonytė, N Yang - Marketing Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper investigates the systematic differences between online and offline grocery
shopping baskets using data from approximately two million brick-and-mortar and Instacart …

Aging out of WIC and child nutrition: evidence from a regression discontinuity design

TA Smith, P Valizadeh - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC) is the third largest food assistance program in the United States. Child participants …

Malleability of alcohol consumption: Evidence from migrants

M Hinnosaar, EM Liu - Journal of Health Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
How malleable is alcohol consumption? Specifically, how much is alcohol consumption
driven by the current environment versus individual characteristics? To answer this question …

Brand expertise, impulsiveness and materialism aggravate unhealthy food products buying among young adults despite pricing and sin tax interventions

PV Thayyib, I Anwar, S MM, N Yasin… - Cogent Business & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Building upon the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) and the hedonic motivation theories,
this study aims to assess the effects of consumer awareness variables viz. unhealthy product …

When Is Food Consumption Maladaptive?

SR Finkelstein, L Hagen, B Pereira - Maladaptive Consumer Behavior …, 2024 - Springer
People make about 200 decisions a day about what food to consume and when to consume
it. Given the sheer number of food-related decisions people face in their lifetime, it is …

Habits in consumer purchases: Evidence from store closures

A Tohidi, D Eckles, A Jadbabaie - Available at SSRN 4077391, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
In-store shopping involves recurring behaviors often happening in a familiar environment,
potentially facilitating habit formation. Habit formation in retail purchases is broadly …

Animal Welfare Labels and Consumer Demand

MJW Kotschedoff, MJ Pachali, A Rao - Available at SSRN 4887912, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Consumers are increasingly expressing their concerns over animal welfare standards in
agricultural food production. However, little is known on whether consumers would actually …

[PDF][PDF] Long-term policy impact estimation with causal structure learning

N Kaynar, D Mitrofanov - Available at SSRN, 2024 - nkaynar.github.io
Policymakers frequently implement short-term interventions (eg, healthy food subsidies) to
achieve longterm outcomes (eg, lasting healthy eating habits). However, the delay in …

Incentivizing Healthy Food Choices Using Add-on Bundling: A Field Experiment

N Bandi, MC Cohen, S Ray - Manufacturing & Service …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: How can retailers incentivize customers to make healthier food choices?
Price, convenience, and taste are known to be among the main drivers behind such choices …

Incentives to eat healthily: Evidence from a grocery store field experiment

JA List, A Samek, T Zhu - Economica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We use a field experiment with over 200 participants to investigate the effect of incentives on
grocery store purchases. We randomize participants to treatments where we incentivize …