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Shopping around? How households adjusted food spending over the Great Recession

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

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...

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The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants

Atkin, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Anthropologists have long documented substantial and persistent differences across social groups in the preferences and taboos for particular foods. One natural question to ask is whether such food cultures matter in an economic sense. In particular, can culture constrain caloric intake and...

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School Meals as a Safety Net: An Evaluation of the Midday Meal Scheme in India

Dercon, Stefan; Park, Albert; Singh, Abhijeet - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

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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Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?

Dubois, Pierre; Griffith, Rachel; Nevo, Aviv - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

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 counterfactual choices if households faced prices and nutritional...

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Unemployment, Health and Welfare During the Depression

Webster, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985

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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Nutrition and Risk Sharing Within the Household

Dubois, Pierre; Ligon, Ethan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

responds to earnings shocks. If productivity depends on nutrition, this explains some but not all of the response, as earnings …

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Measuring the Transformation of the European Economies: Income, Health and Welfare

Floud, Roderick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984

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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Schooling and Youth Mortality: Learning from a Mass Military Exemption

Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …

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Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Kuhn, Andreas; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … cardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain increased mortality among …

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Privatization and Quality: Evidence from Elderly Care in Sweden

Bergman, Mats; Johansson, Per; Lundberg, Sofia; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

opening to private provision affected mortality rates – an important and not easily contractible quality dimension – using a … competition significantly improved non-contractible quality as measured by mortality rates. It also reduced the cost per resident …

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