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 … heterogeneity in the trade effects of exchange rate risk. While the mean trade effects are positive for short-run and long …

United States in 1989. The second is the mad cows dispute between the United Kingdom and the European Union in 1996. These … British beef exports did not constitute a protectionist measure, while the US ban on Chilean fruit possibly classifies as such …

household, the household spends significantly more on food, in particular on milk and fruit and vegetables, and significantly …We examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child … of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and …

Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries … that the change from in-kind food aid to vouchers led to substantial impacts on poverty through the way it changed how …, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences between these …

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 estimate difference-in-difference models that compare the change in the … probability that consumers recently visited Starbucks to the change in the probability that they recently visited a similar chain …

interaction between corrective and redistributive motives in a general optimal taxation framework and delivers empirically … implementable sufficient statistics formulas for the optimal commodity tax. The optimal sin tax is increasing in the price … elasticity of demand, increasing in the degree to which lower-income consumers are more biased or more elastic to the tax …

. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a price …In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican … food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food …

suggest that people underutilize WIC because of the time needed to enroll in and use WIC and because participants may believe … that, if others notice them participating in WIC, community members will stigmatize them. Recently enacted policies may …-participating households in one state over the period it implemented eWIC. We find that, after beneficiaries began redeeming WIC benefits …

foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into … 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 …

largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 …We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the … most, which benefited small farms over agribusinesses. Online food shopping was highly responsive to COVID-19 media …