| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21170 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21170 |
| Do \u2018Cheeseburger Bills\u2019 Work? Effects of Tort Reform for Fast Food | |
| Christopher S. Carpenter; D. Sebastian Tello-Trillo | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-05-26 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | After highly publicized lawsuits against McDonald’s in 2002, 26 states adopted Commonsense Consumption Acts (CCAs) – aka ‘Cheeseburger Bills’ – that greatly limit fast food companies’ liability for weight-related harms. We provide the first evidence of the effects of CCAs using plausibly exogenous variation in the timing of CCA adoption across states. In two-way fixed effects models, we find that CCAs significantly increased stated attempts to lose weight and consumption of fruits and vegetables among heavy individuals. We also find some evidence that CCAs increased employment in fast food. Finally, we find that CCAs significantly increased the number of company-owned McDonald’s restaurants and decreased the number of franchise-owned McDonald’s restaurants in a state. Overall our results provide novel evidence supporting a key prediction of tort reform – that it should induce individuals to take more care – and show that industry-specific tort reforms can have meaningful effects on market outcomes. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21170 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578858 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christopher S. Carpenter,D. Sebastian Tello-Trillo. Do \u2018Cheeseburger Bills\u2019 Work? Effects of Tort Reform for Fast Food. 2015. |
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