Sweet or not: Nudging toward healthier food choices for children using information
It is of public health interest to nudge children toward healthier food choices such as beverages with less sugar. We conducted a field experiment in peri-urban Viet Nam to evaluate the effects of information and cognitive dissonance arousal on children’s food choice. More than 1200 primary school c...
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| description | It is of public health interest to nudge children toward healthier food choices such as beverages with less sugar. We conducted a field experiment in peri-urban Viet Nam to evaluate the effects of information and cognitive dissonance arousal on children’s food choice. More than 1200 primary school children were randomly assigned into three groups: control, health information, and health information plus hypocrisy inducement – a way to raise cognitive dissonance by illustrating the gap between what people know they should do (socially desired behaviors) and what they actually did (transgressions). We find that health information raised the likelihood of selecting milk with less sugar by around 30 percent, compared with the control group. Hypocrisy inducement does not make an additional contribution to healthier food choice in our sample. The treatment effects decline with the delay between the treatment and behavioral choice. We discuss the practical implications of our findings for short-term intervention field studies. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1433772025-12-02T21:02:41Z Sweet or not: Nudging toward healthier food choices for children using information Nguyen, Trang de Brauw, Alan Van den Berg, Marrit beverages sweeteners child nutrition health healthy diets schoolchildren nutrition sugar confectionery children information diet sugar public health It is of public health interest to nudge children toward healthier food choices such as beverages with less sugar. We conducted a field experiment in peri-urban Viet Nam to evaluate the effects of information and cognitive dissonance arousal on children’s food choice. More than 1200 primary school children were randomly assigned into three groups: control, health information, and health information plus hypocrisy inducement – a way to raise cognitive dissonance by illustrating the gap between what people know they should do (socially desired behaviors) and what they actually did (transgressions). We find that health information raised the likelihood of selecting milk with less sugar by around 30 percent, compared with the control group. Hypocrisy inducement does not make an additional contribution to healthier food choice in our sample. The treatment effects decline with the delay between the treatment and behavioral choice. We discuss the practical implications of our findings for short-term intervention field studies. 2021-09-16 2024-05-22T12:13:43Z 2024-05-22T12:13:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143377 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133156 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133433 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134401 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133777 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101185 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Nguyen, Trang; de Brauw, Alan; and Van den berg, Marrit. 2021. Sweet or not: Nudging toward healthier food choices for children using information. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2041. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134565. |
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| title | Sweet or not: Nudging toward healthier food choices for children using information |
| title_full | Sweet or not: Nudging toward healthier food choices for children using information |
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| title_short | Sweet or not: Nudging toward healthier food choices for children using information |
| title_sort | sweet or not nudging toward healthier food choices for children using information |
| topic | beverages sweeteners child nutrition health healthy diets schoolchildren nutrition sugar confectionery children information diet sugar public health |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143377 |
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