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On the Costs of Inward-Looking Development : Historical Perspectives on Price Distortions, Growth, and Divergence in Latin American from 1930s - 1980s
Taylor, Alan M. - 1996
From the 1930s to the 1980s, economic policies in Latin America epitomized the inward-looking model of development. The model emerged in the Depression, and was later codified in unorthodox economic theories. Even though economic performance was seen as disappointing by the 1960s, the...
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Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families
Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002
We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families. Expenditures on food and home fuels are tracked by linking the Consumer Expenditure Survey to temperature data. Using the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination...
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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy
Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002
We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …
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Inflation and Poverty
Cardoso, Eliana - 1992
individuals below the poverty line. It also argues that inflation affects poverty mainly through its impact on real wages: the …. Finally the paper discusses whether some stabilization programs are less costly in terms of increased poverty than others …
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Microeconomic Aspects of Productivity Growth under Import Substitution : Turkey
Krueger, Anne O. - 1980
This paper assesses the empirical relevance of "dynamic" factors in industrialization in developing countries. Using data from a sample of 91 firms, rates of growth of output per unit of input are calculated. It is shown that there is little basis, at least with regard to Turkish experience, to...
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Did Import Substitution Promote Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century?
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2002
The positive correlation between import tariffs and economic growth across countries in the late nineteenth century suggests that tariffs may have played a causal role in promoting growth. This paper seeks to determine if high tariffs stimulated growth by shifting resources out of agriculture...
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The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases : Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
Marcus, Michelle M.; Yewell, Katherine G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher...
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Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply
Gray, Colin; Leive, Adam; Prager, Elena; Pukelis, Kelsey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Work requirements are common in U.S. safety net programs. Evidence remains limited, however, on the extent to which work requirements increase economic self-sufficiency or screen out vulnerable individuals. Using linked administrative data on food stamps (SNAP) and earnings with a regression...
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Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the dual crises of disease and the containment policies designed to mitigate it. Yet, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women, who are likely to be especially vulnerable, in lower-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and...
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Household Food Insecurity Across Generations
Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; Reichman, Nancy E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This study estimated the effects of welfare reform in the 1990s, which permanently restructured and contracted the cash assistance system in the U.S., on food insecurity--a fundamental form of hardship--of the next generation of households. An implicit goal underlying welfare reform was the...
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