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Bitter sugar: slavery and the black family
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and social conditions prevailing in the latter have persistently affected … family formation patterns. By exploiting the exogenous variation in sugar suitability, we establish the following. In 1850 …, sugar suitability is indeed associated with extreme demographic outcomes within the slave population. Over the period 1880 …
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Does a spoonful of sugar levy help the calories go down? : an analysis of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy
Dickson, Alex; Gehrsitz, Markus; Kemp, Jonathan - 2021
a few global soft drinks brands reduced sugar content and hence avoided the tiered levy. For brands that maintained … their original sugar content, the levy was on average over-shifted resulting in substantial retail price increases …
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The importance of the cognitive environment for intertemporal choice
Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2013
We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment, cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake, and …, individuals who consumed a sugared drink, and individuals who consumed a sugar-free drink all defer more income than a control …
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Pour some sugar in me : does glucose enrichment improve decision making?
McElroy, Todd; Dickinson, David L.; Stroh, Nathan - 2014
In the current study we explore whether enriching the brain's supply of glucose will improve the quality and speed of decision making. Prior research shows that glucose enrichment supports cognition and more recent research has shown it can improve decision making on some tasks. To test our...
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An analysis of beverage size restrictions
Bourquard, Brian A.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2019
Due to high levels of obesity, various government interventions have been proposed to curb the consumption of sugar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019319
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COVID-19 employment status impacts on food sector workers
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...
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Preferential market access into the Chinese market : how good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Yap; Dimova, Ralitza - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...
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Trade liberalization, economic activity, and political violence in the Global South : evidence from PTAs
Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
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