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Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of … persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with a focus on food manufacturing and grocery stores. We find that the … pandemic significantly reduced the probability of continued active employment for previous workers in both food manufacturing …
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Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost … on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in … results imply a net reduction in healthy food store choice due to time lost. …
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with observed household consumption decisions. Our approach is based on inference from household-level estimation of food … Engel curves in the US and in a few other countries. For a given price index as the deflator of income, deviations from food …
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We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally … distributions of several food security measures. UQR estimates reveal that the negative marginal effect of a price increase on food … consumption is two and a half times larger for households that can afford to cut the value of food consumption (75th quantile …
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This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and … insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … examines the general relationships between these variables and finds that reports of food hardships are positively associated …
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Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...
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A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...
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weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …
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often lack the necessary resources, they are forced to cut back on basic consumption, such as food, in order to afford a …
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Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
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