NCT02403882

Behavioral Economic Interventions at Food Pantries

An Analysis of Behavioral Economic Interventions at Client-Choice Food Pantries

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 443 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Auburn University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators run a series of behavioral economic interventions at client-choice food pantries to encourage clients to choose targeted foods.

Detailed description

The study includes simple interventions at food pantries in New York State. In the initial phase, the investigators are testing the effect of order, packaging, pricing products, and relative proportion of products at a food pantry.

Conditions

• Food Selection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Order	In the order intervention, the investigators place the targeted product at the front of the line for the treatment. For the control, the investigators place the targeted product at the end of the line.
BEHAVIORAL	Packaging	In the packaging intervention, the investigator present the targeted product in the original package. In the control, the investigator repackage the targeted product in clear, plastic bags.
BEHAVIORAL	Pricing	In the pricing intervention, the investigators price all or targeted products in the treatment. In the control, the investigators do not price the products.
BEHAVIORAL	Relative Proportions	The investigators adjust the amount of the targeted good available relative to the other products. In the treatment, the targeted good is a larger proportion of the total goods offered in the section, while in the control the shares of the targeted and other goods are equal.
BEHAVIORAL	Default Option	In an early site, the investigators offer a targeted product without an alternative. The subjects can accept or reject the offer. The subjects are told that an alternative product is available later. At the site where the alternative product is available, investigators offer subjects the opportunity to exchanged the targeted product for the alternative product.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2015-03-31
• Last updated: 2016-04-26