Can Food Stamps Do More to Improve Food Choices? An Economic Perspective-Making Healthy Food Choices Easier: Ideas From Behavioral Economics

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英文名称：

Can Food Stamps Do More to Improve Food Choices? An Economic Perspective-Making Healthy Food Choices Easier: Ideas From Behavioral Economics

作者：

Lisa Mancino; Margaret Andrews

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=44196

关键词：

Food Stamp Program;  food consumption;  food prices;  food expenditures;  nutrition education;  behavioral economics;  food choices;  diet;  health;  fruits and vegetables;  Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program;  FANRP; 

年份：

2007

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

4 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

With obesity the most prevalent nutrition problem facing Americans at all economic levels, promoting diets that provide adequate nutrition without too many calories has become an important objective for the Food Stamp Program. Findings from behavioral economics suggest innovative, low-cost ways to improve the diet quality of food stamp participants without restricting their freedom of choice. Unlike more traditional economic interventions, such as changing prices or banning specific foods, the strategies explored in this brief can be targeted to those participants who want help making more healthful food choices.