Calorie Posting

Listed below are publications and working papers about calorie posting requirements (adding calorie counts to restaurant menus), which is also referred to as menu labeling, in reverse chronological order.  The links for the published papers will direct you to the published abstracts on the journals’ websites and the full-text is available with a subscription (institutional or personal) to the journal.  The working papers are the versions of the paper prior to publication and are accessible by clicking on the link to the paper.

  1. “Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare,” (with C. Courtemanche, D. Jimenez-Gomez, M. Ouayogode, and M. Price).
    1. NBER Working Paper 26869.