Buy What is Advertised on Television? Evidence from Bans on Child-Directed Food Advertising
研究了美国食品行业自律项目CFBAI对儿童广告暴露和家庭购买行为的影响，发现仅限制儿童定向广告效果有限，但减少广告暴露能显著降低家庭购买。
The authors examine whether the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), the food industry's self-regulatory program that restricts child-directed advertising, has been effective in reducing children's advertising exposure and in changing household purchasing behaviors. During 2006–2008, Hershey's, Mars, and Cadbury Adams implemented their CFBAI pledges. The current findings indicate that CFBAI implementation reduced purchasing frequency by households with children of Cadbury Adams's bubble gum (by 80%) but not Hershey's or Mars chocolate. This seems to have resulted from Cadbury Adams's eliminating advertising to all age groups, whereas children continued to be exposed at high levels to Hershey's and Mars chocolate advertising on general programs. The authors conclude that restricting (only) child-directed advertising may not effectively reduce advertising exposure to children, but reducing advertising exposure can significantly lessen household purchasing.