Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants

By Bryan K. Bollinger, Phillip Leslie, Alan T. Sorensen. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Marketing

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Disclosure: Psychology Changes Everything (2014, unknown): “Research has found that people have systematically biased beliefs about, for example, food calorie content (Bollinger et al., 2010), returns to schooling (Jensen 2010), potential earnings in other countries (McKenzie et al.”
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure (2012, unknown): “For example, changes in consumer buying behavior are more likely to be observed in markets subject to competition, which facilitates customers’ switching when newly available information reveals existing suppliers to be worse-performing (Bollinger et al., 2011).”
Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud (2016, unknown): “Bollinger et al. (2010) employ the same heuristic to identify pairs of competing Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts.”
Using Behavioral Economics to Design More Effective Food Policies to Address Obesity (2014, background): “…settings and small field trials, some studies have found moderate effects on reducing calories purchased and/or consumed (Bassett et al. 2008; Bollinger et al. 2011; Burton et al. 2006; Chu et al. 2009; Pulos and Leng 2010; Roberto et al. 2010; Variyam and Cawley 2006), while other studies…”
The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain (2009, unknown): “26 Bollinger et al. (2009) find that posting calorie counts in Starbucks in New York City reduced calories consumed by about 6%, which is significant, but not large enough to have a major impact on obesity rates by itself.”
Which Healthy Eating Nudges Work Best? A Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments (2018, background): “Descriptive nutritional labeling (k = 34) Calorie or nutrition labeling (Dubbert et al. 1984; Chu et al. 2009; Elbel et al. 2009, 2011, 2013; Pulos and Leng 2010; Roberto et al. 2010; Bollinger et al. 2011; Dumanovsky et al. 2011; Finkelstein et al. 2011; Tandon et al. 2011; Webb et al. 2011; Auchin”
Knowledge is (Less) Power: Experimental Evidence from Residential Energy Use (2014, unknown): “Revised version published in the American Economic Review 104(4), 1417-1438, April 2014.”
The Welfare Effects of Misperceived Product Costs: Data and Calibrations from the Automobile Market (2013, background): “For example, Starbucks customers tend to overestimate the calories in drinks and underestimate the calories in food (Bollinger, Leslie, and Sorensen 2011).”