Nudging Nutrition With Monetary Incentives Environmental Cues

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

221

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 31, 2010

Primary Completion Date

March 31, 2011

Study Completion Date

April 30, 2011

Conditions
ObesityFood LabelingHealth BehaviorDiet
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Subsidy

Frame the price difference as a 10% subsidy on nutritious food items.

BEHAVIORAL

Tax

Frame the price difference as a 10% tax on less nutritious food items.

BEHAVIORAL

Tax and subsidy

Frame the price difference as a 5% tax on less nutritious food items and a 5% subsidy on nutritious food items, creating a 10% relative price difference between the types of foods.

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

New York City School District, New York

Sponsors

Lead Sponsor

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH

collaborator

Ohio State University

OTHER

collaborator

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NIH

lead

Cornell University

OTHER