Healthy habits: Some thoughts on the role of public policy in healthful eating and exercise under limited rationality

Behavioural Public Policy

Volumn 9781107042636, Issue , 2012, Pages 115-139

  Rabin, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84928079752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107337190.006     Document Type: Chapter

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