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We estimate the impact of weather variation on agricultural output in Indonesia by examining the impact of local rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in combination with government administrative data on...
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of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and … food. We cannot reject the hypothesis that the effect of replacing a biological child with a non- biological child is the … disaggregate food consumption more finely, we find that when a child's biological mother is the head or spouse of the head of …
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quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity … score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is used to measure nutritional quality of household food purchases. WIC … foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …
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Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …
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inequality that emphasize supply-side factors such as food deserts …
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How much do calorie requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric … intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …
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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 data from samples of probate inventories we construct a series of slave prices for Low Country South Carolina and Georgia covering the period 1722-1815. Using these data we examine variations in slave prices by age and sex, as well as geographic variations between and within the two...
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This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate risk on global food supply chains. Although the theoretical literature … for a balanced panel of 159 countries for 2001 to 2017. I study the relationship for 781 agricultural and food products … a primary source of international risk exposure for global food supply chains …
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We study the effects of globalization on agricultural productivity across countries. We develop a multi-country general equilibrium model that incorporates choices of crops and technologies in agricultural production at the micro-level of fields covering the surface of the earth. We estimate our...
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