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This presentation was given by Rachel Griffith and Martin O'Connell at the Wellcome Trust.

 

    Authors

    Rachel Cassidy
    Rachel Griffith

    Co-director, CPP Institute

    Rachel is an CPP Institute Co-director and Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. 

    Martin O'Connell
    Martin O'Connell

    Research Fellow University of Wisconsin

    Martin, previously Deputy Research Director, is a Research Fellow at IFS and Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin.

    Kate Smith
    Kate Smith

    Research Fellow London School of Economics

    Kate is an IFS Research Fellow and an Assistant Professor at LSE, interested in public finance, industrial organisation and applied microeconomics.

    Presentation details

    DOI
    10.1920/ps.ifs.2024.0541
    Publisher
    IFS

    Suggested citation

    R, Griffith and M, O'Connell and K, Smith. (2017). 'Public policy and food choices' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/public-policy-and-food-choices (accessed: 14 November 2026).

    Grant

    Empirical evidence on the formation of habits, self-control and non-separabilities in food choices (FOODHABITS) Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), 2015-2020 Food consumption, advertising and dynamics Developing robust methods for evaluating policies in the markets for food and nutrition Regulating product characteristic space in food markets

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