expect if food consumption delivers not only utils, but also nutrients affecting future productivity. The efficiency … conditions which characterize the within-household allocation of food under the unitary model are violated, as consumption … responds to earnings shocks. If productivity depends on nutrition, this explains some but not all of the response, as earnings …

Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the … UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate …

Over the Great Recession real wages stagnated and unemployment increased. Concurrently, food prices rose sharply …, outstripping growth in food expenditure, and leading to a reduction in calories purchased. This has led to concern about rising … food poverty. We study British households to assess how they adjusted to changes in the economic environment. We show they …

taboos for particular foods. One natural question to ask is whether such food cultures matter in an economic sense. In … inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …

This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the … their agri-food products from a wider range of suppliers), while geographical concentration increases at the intensive … food alerts at the EU border that had never been exploited before. After coding it into HS8 categories, we regress the …

Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a … small global share of privately-held external assets and liabilities (with the exception of China’s FDI liabilities), these … “short equity, long debt.” Third, China and India have improved their net external positions over the last decade although …

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China … procurement burdens on peasants, leaving them with insufficient food to sustain labour productivity. Grain output fell sharply at …