Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Année : 2025

Label or taxes: Why not both? Testing nutritional mixed policies in the lab

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We run an incentivized framed laboratory experiment to evaluate the interaction of labelling (Nutri-Score) and pricing policies (fat taxes and thin subsidies) on the food shopping of a sample of French consumers. Taxes and subsidies, designed to fit Nutri-Score, are differentiated according to their magnitude (large or small), and their salience (explicit or implicit). We exploit a difference-in-difference design, whereby subjects shop for real from a catalog of 290 products twice, first without any labelling nor pricing policy, and then a second time with one of five different combinations of labelling and pricing policies. Results show that: (i) when implemented alone, taxes and subsidies are less effective than labelling, especially when implicit and when small in magnitude; (ii) policies mixing pricing and labelling are strongly sub-additive; (iii) consumers would benefit from such policies in terms of expenditure at the expense of the State.

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Cite 10.17605/OSF.IO/R9Z4X Article Crosetto, P. (2019). LabelPrix - an experiment coupling nutritional labeling and pricing policies. OSF Registries. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/R9Z4X

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hal-04880070 , version 1 (10-01-2025)

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Paolo Crosetto, Laurent Muller, Bernard Ruffieux. Label or taxes: Why not both? Testing nutritional mixed policies in the lab. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025, 229, pp.106825. ⟨10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106825⟩. ⟨hal-04880070⟩
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