Wall Street Journal: People paying with plastic more likely to buy unhealthy foods

Release Date: October 26, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article on the Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog reports on research conducted by Satheeshkumar Seenivasan, a doctoral candidate in the School of Management, that found that when people pay for food with credit or debit cards, they are more likely to buy unhealthy foods.

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