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The measurement of national income has added greatly to our understanding of economic and social change in Europe over the past hundred years. But national income analysis does not take full account of changes in welfare and particularly of the causes and effects of long-term changes in the...
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Were cash benefits and welfare services available to the unemployed sufficient to protect them from ill-health? Recent reappraisals have tended to magnify the influence of welfare provision. The present review draws on hitherto unexploited, confidential reports of the Ministry of Health and...
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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 …
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Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a national midday meal program on anthropometric z-scores...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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