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We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …
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Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …
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We use U.S. household-level bank account data to investigate the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic on spending and savings. Households across the income distribution all cut spending from March to early April. Since mid April, spending has rebounded most rapidly for low-income households. We...
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We build a publicly available platform that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report daily statistics on consumer spending, business revenues, employment rates, and other key indicators disaggregated by county, industry,...
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As is well known, during the pandemic recession firms directly exposed to the virus, i.e. the "contact" sector, contracted sharply and recovered slowly relative to the rest of the economy. Less understood is how firms that "won" by offering safer substitutes for contact sector goods have...
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids … well as they did before COVID. Finally, consumption of food and fuel fell less than consumption of durables such as … consumption reflect large price shocks (rather than a retreat to subsistence) in sectors other than food and fuel/power. In the …
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significantly less on food and total consumption, after controlling for income, wealth, employment, demographics, and macro …
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Previous research has used survey and diary data to carefully document that Food Stamp recipients decrease their … expenditures and consumption of food throughout the benefit month, the beginning of which is defined by the date on which benefits … for why food consumption cycles. Using detailed grocery store scanner data we ask 1) whether cycling is due to a desire …
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Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral … food choice, capturing a number of behaviors consistent with self-control problems, which provides direct evidence for the …
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This paper estimates the impact on consumer behavior of a firm's voluntary disclosure of information. Specifically, we study the impact of Starbucks' disclosure of calorie information on its menu boards in June 2013. Using data on over 250,000 consumers' visits to specific restaurant chains, we...
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