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This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …
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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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Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …
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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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large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last …-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville retail and food service workers with young children (58 percent working in …
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This paper explores the effects of relative food prices on body weight and body fat over time in China. We study a … effect does not always hold for body weight. These findings suggest that changes in food consumption patterns induced by … varying food prices can increase percentage body fat to risky levels even without substantial weight gain. In addition, food …
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Since the mid-1900s, agricultural global value chains (AGVCs) have grown rapidly and transformed the nature of agri-food …
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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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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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A common objection to "sin taxes"--corrective taxes on goods that are thought to be overconsumed, such as cigarettes, alcohol, and sugary drinks--is that they often fall disproportionately on low-income consumers. This paper studies the interaction between corrective and redistributive motives...
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