Do menu-labelling laws translate into results? The disparate impacts on population obesity and diabetes |
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Authors: | Jacqueline Craig Gregory T Niemesh |
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Institution: | 1. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA;2. Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA;3. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTDespite their joint importance to health care costs, the nature of the relationship between obesity and diabetes is contested within the medical literature. We leverage California’s 2008 law mandating menu-labelling at restaurants to confirm that the law reduced obesity compared to the experience of counties not subject to such regulation. Despite this reduction in obesity, we find no California-specific reduction in the prevalence of diabetes and we find a significantly positive impact on the likelihood of new diabetes diagnoses. We evaluate a range of potential hypotheses that rationalize the divergent findings on obesity and diabetes. |
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Keywords: | Obesity diabetes health calories menu |
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