2018
Getting a Healthy Start? The effectiveness of targeted benefits for improving dietary choices.
Publication
Publication
Journal of Health Economics , Volume 58 p. 176- 187
There is growing policy interest in encouraging better dietary choices. We study a nationallyimplemented policy – the UK Healthy Start scheme – that introduced vouchers for fruit, vegetables and milk. We show thatthe policy has increased spending on fruit and vegetables and has been more effective than an equivalent-value cash benefit. We also show that the policy improved the nutrient composition of households’ shopping baskets, with no offsetting changes in spending on other foodstuffs.
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Griffith, R., von Hinke Kessler Scholder, S.M.L., & Smith, S. (2018). Getting a Healthy Start? The effectiveness of targeted benefits for improving dietary choices. Journal of Health Economics, 58, 176–187. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.02.009 |
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