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Summary Sentence: Opportunities from Intervention: How Public Policy Can Help the Nation Eat Healthier
Full Summary: Please join us for a talk by Adithya Pattabhiramaia Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Register online today!
BES_PattabhiramaiahThe Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business (“Center”) invites you to the next talk in the Business, Environment, and Society Speaker Series. Adithya Pattabhiramaiah, assistant professor of marketing in the Scheller College of Business, will present “Opportunities from Intervention: How Public Policy Can Help the Nation Eat Healthier.” Pattabhiramaiah will share research from published work and work-in-progress on the impact of public policy on our nation’s health. The event is open to the public.
Findings in Pattabhiramaiah’s co-authored article, “The Minimum Wage and Consumer Nutrition” (published in the Journal of Marketing Research in September), suggest that higher minimum wages may not only help households afford more calories but also encourage some households to purchase more healthy calories. The authors also find an increased openness among minimum wage households to purchasing new grocery items, which offers retailers with a nutrition-friendly brand image an opportunity to nudge consumers toward purchasing more healthy foods.
Pattabhiramaiah’s current work in progress focuses on the influence of school dietary health policies on shopping behaviors. Public policy advocates want society to eat healthier. As a result, at the federal level, nutrition policy now mandates that food served at school cafeterias be healthier. While directives about what to eat (or not) have had little positive impact on public health (turns out, people don’t like to be told what to eat!), an experiment is now underway to try to inculcate healthy eating habits in children. Pattabhiramaiah’s current research focuses on the impact of the mandates on the families’ shopping behaviors.
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Pattabhiramaiah will present his talk, engage in a Q&A with Center Faculty Director Beril Toktay, and take questions from the audience.
Speaker Bio:
https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/pattabhiramaiah/index.html
Adithya (Adi) Pattabhiramaiah joined the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business as an assistant professor of marketing in August 2014 after receiving his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. His primary research interests lie in the areas of media monetization, digital/social media marketing, sustainability, and public policy. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Marketing Science, Management Science, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, and Marketing Letters. Adithya has taught courses titled “Marketing Research: Analytics” and "Pricing Strategy and Analytics" at Scheller. Adithya’s research has received various forms of recognition: He was a finalist for the 2019 Paul Root Award and won the 2013 MSI Alden G. Clayton Dissertation Competition Award. He serves as a member of the Editorial Review Board at the Journal of Marketing Research. Prior to joining the academic world, he worked in product development/management for SAP Labs and Perot Systems after receiving his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology at Surathkal in India.
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Due to current distance-learning circumstances, this event will be hosted virtually. The virtual platform will be BlueJeans.
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business was founded in 2013 to act as a catalyst and connector, bringing together students, research faculty, companies, and entrepreneurs to create an environment where business-driven solutions to sustainability challenges can take shape and thrive. In all, Scheller provides students unparalleled breadth in environmental sustainability, ethics, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and values-based leadership.
