Thought for food: Nutritional information and educational disparities in diet

Higher-educated individuals are healthier and live longer than their lower-educated peers. One reason is that lower-educated individuals tend to consume lower-quality diets, but it is not fully understood why they do so. We designed a discrete-choice experiment to investigate how provision of nutrit...

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Published in:Journal of human capital 2017-12, Vol.11 (4), p.508-552
Main Authors: Koç, Hale, van Kippersluis, Hans
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bildungsniveau
Diet
Educational inequality
Ernährungsverhalten
Gesundheit
Healthy food
Niederlande
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Summary:Higher-educated individuals are healthier and live longer than their lower-educated peers. One reason is that lower-educated individuals tend to consume lower-quality diets, but it is not fully understood why they do so. We designed a discrete-choice experiment to investigate how provision of nutritional information affects dietary choices of lower- and higher-educated individuals. We find that nutritional knowledge is responsible for a large part of the disparity in dietary choices. However, even when faced with the most explicit nutritional information, lower-educated individuals still state choices that suggest a lower value for negative health consequences.
ISSN:1932-8575
1932-8664
1932-8664
DOI:10.1086/694571