How Wealth and Education -- Not Access -- Drive Healthy Food Choices
Episode Description
Policy makers need to focus on spreading awareness of healthy foods among low-income and low-education households, suggests new research by Wharton’s Jessie Handbury. More: http://knlg.net/1G7Y8gk 📂 Public Policy 🏷️ Research
Brief Summary
Household food purchasing disparities are influenced more by education than access to stores, challenging existing policy approaches.
Key points
- Impact of Food Deserts. The study explores whether eradicating food deserts improves healthfulness of food products.
- Disparities in Food Purchases. Research reveals significant differences in food purchases between high and low socioeconomic households.
- Education vs. Income Disparities. Surprisingly, education level impacts food choices more than income level.
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Episode highlights
- Impact of Food DesertsThe study explores whether eradicating food deserts improves healthfulness of food products.“To what extent will eradicating food deserts actually have a positive impact?”1:11Jun 18, 2015
- Disparities in Food PurchasesResearch reveals significant differences in food purchases between high and low socioeconomic households.“We see pretty large disparities and differences in terms of what households are buying.”1:42Jun 18, 2015
- Education vs. Income DisparitiesSurprisingly, education level impacts food choices more than income level.“Differences along the education dimension are much larger than those along the income dimension.”5:00Jun 18, 2015
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