The Impact of NuVal Shelf Nutrition Labels on Consumption: Evidence from Cold Cereal Purchases Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Research examining the effect of summary shelf nutrition labels on consumers behavior in real market settings is scarce. Using a supermarkets voluntary adoption of NuVala 1 to 100 numeric summary shelf label systemas a natural experiment, we estimate a Two-Part Model (TPM) to identify the effect of the NuVal label on consumer purchasing decisions for cold cereal. Our results show that posting the NuVal score not only increases the purchase volume of healthier cold cereal products but also increases households likelihood to purchase cold cereal products with higher nutrition scores. Tests for heterogeneous treatment effects reveal that lower-income households experience a large improvement in their food choices when the NuVal scores are posted.

published proceedings

  • 2017 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2017, Mobile, Alabama

author list (cited authors)

  • Melo, G., & Zhen, C.

complete list of authors

  • Melo, Grace||Zhen, Chen

publication date

  • January 2017