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How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2013

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program …

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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?

Jensen, Robert T. - 2010

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consumers may then substitute towards foods with higher...

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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty

Anderson, Kym - 2013

This paper first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints--were meant to partially insulate domestic markets from the...

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Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries

Gouel, Christophe - 2013

When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, hunger and malnutrition are very likely to result in the absence of public intervention. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market...

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Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches to Price and Tax Reform

Deaton, Angus - 1996

In the analysis of tax reform, when equity is traded off against efficiency, the measurement of the latter requires us to know how tax- induced price changes affect quantities supplied and demanded. In this paper, we present various econometric procedures for estimating how taxes affect demand....

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School Food Policy Affects Everyone : Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program

Handbury, Jessie; Moshary, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the private market response to the National School Lunch Program, documenting economically meaningful spillovers to non-recipients. We focus on the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), an expansion of the lunch program under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Under the CEP,...

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Bureaucratic Competence and Procurement Outcomes

Decarolis, Francesco - 2018

context of the US federal procurement of services and works by combining contract-level data on procurement performance and …

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Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes

Decarolis, Francesco - 2016

Reputational incentives may be a powerful mechanism for improving supplier performance. We analyze their role in contract awarding, exploiting an experiment run by a firm which introduced a new vendor rating system scoring suppliers' past performance and linking it to the award of future...

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Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement : Evidence from Italian Government Contracting

Decarolis, Francesco - 2020

for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … chosen more often by officials who are themselves investigated for corruption, they are used less often in procurement …

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Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement : An Empirical Analysis

Bajari, Patrick - 2003

procurement in the public sector are discussed …

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