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Title:

Time (In)Consistent Food Choice of Children and Teenagers

Author(s):
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Schmidt, Carsten
Abstract:
We document an increasing capacity to resist temptation in a time consistent manner from children to teenagers. Competencies develop in two steps: From age 8 on many pupils naively plan and after age 12 successfully implement strategies toresist temptation. Our evidence comes from a food choice experiment that we conducted with comparable participant pools of elementary and high school pupils in 5 di fferent school years. We off er tangible choices in terms of apples and chocolate.On the first d...     »
Keywords:
Arbeitspapier/Diskussionspapier
Year:
2011
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